🔻IRGC: Third oil tanker today hit a sea mine in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire

🔻The public relations of the Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that a supertanker carrying more than two million barrels of oil, after hitting a sea mine in the Strait of Hormuz, has exploded and caught fire.

According to the IRGC, this is the third tanker which, on Friday while passing through a route the Islamic Republic considers “unauthorized,” experienced an explosion and a fire.

The IRGC Navy said that this tanker was released at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz and is still burning.

In the IRGC statement, the name and specifications of the tanker, its flag, and the status of the crew were not announced. The IRGC’s statements have not yet been independently verified.

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