Iran says at least three oil tankers, including a supertanker, struck 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 reported that one of the ships was carrying 2 million barrels of crude oil when it detonated a mine, triggering explosions that consumed three vessels travelling on what Tehran described as "unauthorised routes." Iranian state media further claimed that IRGC forces had intercepted and seized a US MQM-170 drone above Qeshm island and destroyed an unmanned US surface vessel in the eastern strait.
US CENTCOM flatly denied the drone claims, posting that all American unmanned vessels in the Middle East are accounted for.
Saudi Arabia separately brought down a Houthi drone over Mecca, with the Iran-backed rebels' reach into the kingdom highlighting how widely the conflict has spread across the region.
A US Navy admiral declared Iran's navy sunk, mines cleared and tanker traffic moving again through Hormuz.
