Two oil tankers entered the southern corridor of the Strait of Hormuz today, November 15, hit mines and caught fire, according to a report by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The Revolutionary Guards added that one of the ships, a supertanker carrying more than two million barrels of crude oil, sank in the southern waters of the Persian Gulf.
The two vessels turned off the navigation systems and the automatic identification systems (AIS) and tried to pass the unauthorized southern corridor with the support of the US military, according to the Revolutionary Guards, according to the Anadolu Agency.