The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says since the early hours “three rogue oil tankers traveling an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz have been hit by explosions and severe fires”.
– Smoke is blanketing the sky over the critical trade waterway, the IRGC’s navy said in a statement on Telegram.
– “These tankers are burning because they turned off their navigation and identification systems and because of the aggression of the American invading military,” it said.
– “The Iranian regulations for the Strait of Hormuz have been repeatedly announced to all vessels, and defiance of these regulations … will have no other fate.”
US Iron Gate plan is ‘just a play on words’, IRGC says
– Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has dismissed the US military plan to expand the blockade of Iranian ports to cover Iran’s land borders as “just a play on words”.
– “The Americans cannot achieve their goal through this, which is to apply severe economic pressure to collapse and disintegrate the Iranian economy,” said IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebi in comments reported by Fars news agency.
– Washington previously “claimed that Iran will suffer an economic collapse within two weeks, but we witnessed that this did not happen”, he added.
– US Central Command said on Saturday its “Iron Gate” taskforce will “disrupt” Iran’s land supply routes and prevent the movement of weapons.
– Iran shares borders with seven countries – Iraq, Turkiye, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan – and also borders the Caspian Sea.
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