LONDON — An Iranian cargo vessel was struck early Sunday off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media reported, bringing the waterway back to the centre of the Middle East war’s shipping crisis. The reports said one person was killed and four were wounded. The cause of the strike and the identity of the attacker were not independently established in the Associated Press account.

Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency quoted the governor of Qeshm as blaming what he called a “terrorist enemy”. The report did not provide evidence for that attribution. The United States military had not immediately commented, even as American forces have operated around Iranian ports and Tehran has threatened military targets in the region.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations monitor separately said a vessel was hit by a projectile while transiting the strait, that a fire had broken out and that local authorities were evacuating people on board. AP said it was not clear whether that alert referred to the Iranian vessel described by state media.

The timing matters. Iran says foreign ministers from regional countries will meet in Oman on Monday to discuss arrangements for shipping through the strait, while Tehran has argued that the waterway’s future should be decided by countries in the region. Commercial traffic remains low, and the risks attached to passage are being measured in warnings, escorts, insurance and delay as much as in the number of ships moving.

For now, the defensible account is narrow: Iranian media report a deadly strike near Qeshm Island; a maritime monitor recorded a separate or possibly related projectile incident; and a regional meeting is due to address shipping. Until authorities identify the vessel, attacker and chain of events, the report should not be presented as proof of who carried out the attack.