🔶 IRGC claims attack on an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz

The commander of the naval force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a statement announcing that an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz had been targeted.

In an early Friday statement, the IRGC navy claimed that IRGC forces “are in control of the vital waterway of the Strait of Hormuz” and “do not allow any aggressor to transit through it.”

The statement also claimed that last night the “offending” tanker named “Trend,” flying the flag of Togo, “with the instigation and deception” of the U.S. Army intended to pass through the Strait of Hormuz “illegally,” which “was hit and stopped after a fire broke out on it.”

The IRGC navy further threatened maritime transportation from the area, describing the passage of commercial vessels as “illegal,” and warned that “illegal passage through the Strait of Hormuz will have no result other than the destruction of the offending vessel.”