Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy warned vessels against using routes it calls unauthorized in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday after alleging that mines had set three tankers on fire.
The force said the tankers were later abandoned near the strait’s southern shores. It also said they had turned off systems used for navigation and identification.
The IRGC Navy said it had sent vessels its navigation regulations through radio broadcasts and naval notices. It warned that ships disregarding those rules while cooperating with the U.S. military to cross unauthorized routes risked a comparable outcome.
The statement named no vessels and gave no information on crew status, casualties or the scale of the damage. Anadolu said it had not independently verified the reported incidents at the time.
Separately, Iran’s Navy said Monday that another tanker struck a mine and caught fire east of the strait, in an area it described as prohibited and unsafe. EconoTimes previously covered a similar three-tanker mine allegation in an earlier report on Iran’s Hormuz claims.
