IRGC: Two tankers struck for ignoring Hormuz directives

TEHRAN, Aug. 01 (YPA) –  The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced on Friday that its forces struck two oil tankers after they tried to slip through the Strait of Hormuz on a route Iranian authorities had not cleared. Both vessels were later detained.

According to the statement issued by the IRGC, in the early hours of Friday, two violating tankers proceeded along an unsafe and illegal route, ignoring Iranian warnings, assuming that they could pass through an undeclared path under the aerial escort of “the child-killing US army”. The statement added they were subsequently struck and halted.

The IRGC said that upon seeing the decisive response from the Iranian Armed Forces, four other oil tankers in the area quickly altered their course and returned.

The IRGC Navy concluded the statement with a strong warning to the US military, stating, “The illegal interventions and orders of the child-killing US Army to vessels in the region will not go unanswered”.

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