Two oil tankers explode, catch fire after hitting naval mines near Hormuz: Iran's IRGC Navy

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Two oil tankers attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz exploded and caught fire after striking naval mines, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said on Friday (local time).

Tehran [Iran], November 14 (ANI): Two oil tankers attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz exploded and caught fire after striking naval mines, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said on Friday (local time).According to a statement reported by Iranian state media, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the IRGC Navy said that the two vessels were attempting to transit through the strategically important waterway without coordinating with Iranian authorities and had switched off their radar and positioning systems."An hour ago, two oil tankers, which were secretly attempting to transit the unauthorised Strait of Hormuz with their radar and positioning systems…

The development also follows the IRGC Aerospace Force's claim that it had destroyed a US military early-warning radar installation in Bahrain in retaliation for an alleged American aerial attack on a telecommunications tower in Iran's Sirik region.According to Iran's Fars News Agency, the IRGC said its forces targeted the radar approximately an hour after the alleged attack on the telecommunications infrastructure.In a statement reported by Fars, the IRGC Aerospace Force described the claimed destruction of the radar as a warning to Washington against continuing its military operations and what Tehran termed oil smuggling in the Strait of Hormuz."The destruction of a US radar in Bahrain was…

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