The public relations of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy announced that 2 oil tankers, while passing through the unauthorized southern lane of the Strait of Hormuz, suffered a severe explosion and fire due to a collision with "sea mines" and one of them sank.
According to the "Tasnim" news agency, the Revolutionary Guards Navy said that these tankers, with the support of the US Army and by turning off the identification and positioning systems, are planning to pass secretly through the Strait of Hormuz, when they encounter "sea mines".
According to this announcement, one of these ships was a supertanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of crude oil, which sank after an explosion and severe fire in the southern waters of the Persian Gulf. The Revolutionary Guards announced that the second oil tanker also suffered an explosion and fire.