UN official urges Iran, US to let fertilisers through Hormuz Strait
Verified: 3 outlets in 3 countries have reported this story since Nov 14.
Iran and the United States should "immediately" allow fertiliser shipments through the Strait of Hormuz to ease the crisis in some of the most vulnerable countries, a senior UN official said Saturday. Jorge Moreira da Silva, head of the UN Office for Project Services, told the COP31 climate talks in the Turkish resort city of Antalya that the lack of fertilisers could push millions into poverty.
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- Nov 14, 1:48 PM UTCFirst report· you’re reading thisUN official urges Iran, US to let fertilisers through Hormuz Straital-monitor.com ↗
- Nov 14, 4:40 PM UTC+3 hUN urges US, Iran to allow fertiliser shipments through Strait of Hormuzgulfnews.com ↗
- Verified: a second independent outlet reported itNov 14, 4:40 PM UTC · +3 h
- Nov 14, 5:33 PM UTC+4 hUN Official Urges Iran, US to Let Fertilizers Through Hormuz Straitenglish.aawsat.com ↗
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- Is more oil going through Hormuz than before the Iran war, as Byron Donalds said? No. ↗
The claim it checked: “There’s more oil going through the Strait (of Hormuz) today than there was pre-war.”
[Claude] Report 2 is the same UN official's call for fertiliser shipments through Hormuz, with fuller detail, so it covers the same event and does not conflict with Report 1.
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