❗️️️️️️️IRGC reports third oil tanker explosion in Strait of Hormuz, warns against unauthorized passage Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy announced on Sunday, 8 November that three oil tankers traveling along unauthorized routes through the Strait of Hormuz had suffered explosions and severe fires since the early hours of Sunday morning. In a statement, the IRGC said the fires were so intense that smoke from the burning tankers had engulfed the skies over the strategic waterway. The IRGC Navy said the tankers were burning because they had switched off their navigation and identification systems and because of the actions of “the smuggling and aggressor US military.” It stressed that Iranian regulations governing passage through the Strait of Hormuz had repeatedly been communicated to all vessels, warning that ships defying these rules and cooperating with the US military to use unauthorized routes “will face no fate other than this.”