The public relations of the Revolutionary Guards Navy announced that two oil tankers, which according to this organization were traveling on an "unauthorized route" in the Strait of Hormuz, caught fire.
According to the Revolutionary Guards' Navy announcement published on Tuesday, November 10, one of the vessels, which was a supertanker, exploded due to being hit by a "naval mine" and the other tanker, which according to this organization was "with the support of US military fighters" and crossed an "illegal route", had an accident and caught fire.
The Revolutionary Guards Navy also announced that these two oil tankers were traveling in the Strait of Hormuz by turning off their navigation and identification systems, and after hitting what was described as the "firewall of the Strait of Hormuz", they were abandoned on the southern shore of the Strait of Hormuz.