The UK Maritime Trade Operations organization announced that a vessel in the waters of Oman caught fire.

Based on the organization’s warning, reports of the incident were received on Sunday night by military authorities, and the cause of the fire has not been confirmed so far. The organization advised ships to transit with caution and to report any suspicious activity.

The location of the incident was reported as the northernmost point of the Musandam Peninsula of Oman, at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz.

Earlier, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had claimed in a statement that at the end of the previous night two oil tankers intending to enter the southern route of the Strait of Hormuz had exploded.

The IRGC claimed that at the end of the previous night two oil tankers intending to enter the southern route of the Strait of Hormuz exploded and were unable to continue moving.

According to the IRGC public relations statement, the two tankers had been brought into this route “through provocation and coercion” by the U.S. Army. In this statement, the names of the ships, their nationalities, and the status of the crew were not mentioned.

In the same statement, the IRGC said that as long as the U.S. attacks in the region continue, this route would not be safe even for “a single drop of oil and gas,” and the U.S. Army should be prepared for “punitive operations.”