The Revolutionary Guards Navy, on Sunday morning, published a statement in which it announced that two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and east of it exploded and caught fire after encountering "sea mines". According to this statement, these two vessels were targeted for "numerous violations, turning off the navigation and positioning systems and attempting to cross unauthorized roads." Another part of this message states that any offending vessel will hit a mine.
At the same time, the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced in a video in Ax that US military forces "disabled a merchant ship in the Sea of Oman after its civilian crew ignored repeated warnings and repeatedly tried to violate the naval blockade against Iran."