VIDEO | Two more supertankers explode in Strait of Hormuz after ignoring IRGC warnings Iran’s IRGC Navy announced on 12 November that two more oil supertankers carrying a combined more than four million barrels of oil were rocked by massive explosions overnight while attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz through an unauthorized southern route, despite repeated warnings from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) maritime traffic control center that the passage was prohibited and unsafe. Both vessels were brought to a halt and caught fire, with the IRGC declaring that they were now “burning in the fire of their trust in the plundering and aggressor US military.” The IRGC warned that any vessel in the Persian Gulf or Strait of Hormuz that switches off its navigation systems and cooperates with what it called “the smuggling US military” to cross the unauthorized southern route “will meet the same fate.”