The Islamic Republic of Iran News Agency reported on Monday morning, November 18, citing an "informed official" of the Revolutionary Guards Navy, that "the enemy's navigation aid systems were destroyed on the southern rocks of the Strait of Hormuz."
The same senior member of the Revolutionary Guards said that following the destruction of this navigation system, "last night, no offensive vessel could enter the illegal passage and the flow of oil smuggling in this passage was completely stopped."
The Islamic Republic announced that the Strait of Hormuz has been closed since the third week of the war and that no vessel has the right to pass through this strategic waterway without coordination with the Iranian armed forces. After the ceasefire on April 19 and after a short period of opening the Strait of Hormuz, the Revolutionary Guards and the new organization "Persian Gulf Waterway Management" are warning commercial ships that they have no right to pass through the southern passage of the Strait of Hormuz near Oman's coastal waters.
In recent weeks, Iran's government media have described the export of oil from the southern route of the Strait of Hormuz as "smuggling". At the same time, attacks on oil tankers on this route increased greatly.