TehranIran says 2 supertankers carrying 4.5 million barrels hit mines.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say ships taking an unauthorized southern route through the strait risk mines.
Fires disabled both engine rooms and crews abandoned ship, the Guards said, and no one has independently verified it.
A US Central Command spokesperson said forces cleared the shipping lanes of mines and 95% of vessels get through.
Polymarket traders give a US-Iran Hormuz agreement by 2 November an 11% chance, up 4 points in a week.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 100+ reports worldwide
- Mehr News Agency leans critical
- relays IRGC claims that crews abandoned the tankers, with no independent verification or US response
- TASS
- gives the IRGC's own phrasing that the tankers were 'violators' on an 'unauthorized southern route'
- Al Jazeera Online leans critical
- reports the IRGC's threat to strike US regional bases and the US claim the claims aim to raise oil prices
Sources: Mehr News Agency, TASS, Al Jazeera Online