IranThe UN maritime agency counts 123 ship attacks near Hormuz.
Agency head Arsenio Dominguez says owners hide attacks and offers no estimate of how many.
Shadow tankers go dark by switching off tracking transponders, and some sail under false flags or fraudulent registries.
Dominguez cannot confirm that mines laid by Iran are cleared and still tells ships to stay away.
How each outlet framed it
- The National leans critical
- argues the 123-ship Hormuz attack count is an undercount because shadow-fleet tankers go dark and fly false flags, per IMO's Dominguez
Sources: The National