Iran says three oil tankers, including a supertanker, hit mines and caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz
Donald Trump, JD Vance and Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office in July. Trump has denied that a letter Vance sent to Iran's top security official was intended to revive peace negotiations, insisting it concerned…
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy said fires broke out across all three ships after one tanker detonated a mine, with the IRGC attributing the incidents to the vessels travelling "unauthorised routes." The Guards also reported shooting down and seizing a US MQM-170 drone over Qeshm island and destroying an unmanned US surface vessel in the eastern strait — claims US CENTCOM rejected, stating all American drones in the region are accounted for.
The supertanker was carrying 2 million barrels of crude oil at the time it struck the mine.
Saudi Arabia separately shot down a Houthi drone near Mecca, underlining how far the regional crisis extends beyond Hormuz itself.
