The Voice of Ummah: The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Navy said on Tuesday that two oil tankers attempting to use an unauthorized southern route through the Strait of Hormuz suffered massive explosions and were left in flames. According to the statement, one vessel, a supertanker, struck a naval mine, while the second, apparently operating under the protection of US military aircraft, caught fire while trying to cross the waterway in secret. Both ships had switched off their navigation and identification systems before the attempt.
The IRGC Navy warned that the unauthorized route is unsafe and that vessels cooperating with US forces would face similar consequences if they tried to use it. Iran says safe transit is confined to designated northern corridors, with prior authorization, and has declared the southern routes near Omani waters unauthorized and mined. The restrictions were imposed in response to the US-Israeli aggression that began on 28 February.
US navigation systems destroyed in the Strait of Hormuz
Iran’s armed forces said navigation systems installed on rocky outcrops in the southern Strait of Hormuz had been targeted, alleging that Washington had been using them to facilitate oil smuggling. Mehr News Agency broadcast video of the systems being destroyed. Iranian officials said no vessel used the unauthorized route overnight after the systems were hit.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi told Tasnim News Agency and IRNA that the United States must abandon military and economic pressure and adopt a language of respect, diplomacy and Iran’s conditions, set out in its “two-day proposal,” which remains on the table. He dismissed as baseless foreign media reports that a meeting was being arranged between Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei and US Vice President JD Vance. Trump, he said, should have realized much earlier that he had failed to achieve any of his objectives in the war on Iran, and that “the war will not end either through military means or by increasing sanctions.” The remarks followed Rezaei’s demand that Washington stop circulating fabricated reports about negotiations and accept Iran’s seven conditions. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei has described the two-day proposal as the most logical roadmap for restoring security in the strait: once Washington lifts its naval blockade of Iranian ports, ends the war on all fronts and unfreezes Iranian assets, the waterway would reopen to commercial shipping within 48 hours.
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