The Revolutionary Guards fleet disables navigation systems accompanied by the US, stopping unauthorized oil transit in southern Hormuz.
The Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced today that unauthorized ship-to-ship oil transfers through the unauthorized southern corridor of the Strait of Hormuz have completely stopped.
The Iranian Broadcasting Authority, citing an anonymous source in the Revolutionary Guards Navy, reports that Iranian defense forces have successfully monitored central navigation aid systems installed along the southern rock formations of the strait. The targeted facilities were used by non-compliant ships attempting to bypass Iranian naval authority accompanied by a US navy.
"Following the destruction of the enemy's navigational assistance systems in the southern rocks of the Strait of Hormuz, not a single offending vessel was able to enter the illegal passage last night, and the flow of oil smuggling through this passage was completely stopped," the source announced.
The operation marks a significant escalation in Tehran's strict enforcement of maritime sovereignty over the strategic choke point following the start of the war between the US and Israel in Iran.
While Washington and regional allies have attempted to organize ship-to-ship transfers of armed US naval escorts along unapproved routes, the IRGC's navy has repeatedly warned that any non-compliant vessels operating outside the designated perimeter of the Persian Gulf Strait (PGSA) face immediate interception, mine encounters or targeted naval fire.