Three oil tankers that encountered explosives in the Strait of Hormuz, where Tehran has limited passage, caught fire, according to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and navy on Saturday. Since the conflict with the United States began in February, Tehran has demanded that ships get its permission before crossing the strait, and it has attacked ships that don’t comply.The Guards’ navy said in a statement about the incident in the south of the waterway that was broadcast by the Iranian state broadcaster early on Saturday that “two oil tankers that had turned off their radar and positioning systems and were secretly attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz through an unauthorised route exploded and caught fire after striking a naval mine.”
Another tanker “navigating through the unsafe and prohibited zone east of the Strait of Hormuz with its tracking and identification systems switched off, caught fire and was forced to stop after striking a naval mine” according to a different statement from Iran’s conventional navy. This screen grab from video footage that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards released on Friday and that Iranian state media broadcast depicts what they claim to be a ship “carrying liquefied gas” that struck a mine in the Strait of Hormuz’s shouth. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards reported on Friday that a ship struck a mine in the Strait of Hormuz, where Tehran has attempted to limit navigation, and then was struck by an explosion. The Guards said that one of the ships struck in South Hormuz was a supertanker, although the remarks did not specify the identities or provenance of the vessels.
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