VIDEO | Iran's IRGC Navy announced that three oil tankers struck naval mines, exploded, and caught fire over the past 24 hours while attempting to exit the Strait of Hormuz through an unauthorized southern route, before being abandoned off the southern coast. The tankers had disabled their radar and navigation systems and ignored IRGC warnings. The IRGC Navy warned that the unauthorized route is mined, held vessel owners and crews responsible for using it, urged them to disregard US CENTCOM’s claims on social media, and vowed a decisive response to any US-backed provocative actions violating the strait’s regulations, stressing that the reality on the ground would speak for itself.