Tehran3 tankers burn in Hormuz, Iran’s Guards say.
A Guards spokesman told state-run Mehr the strait stays closed until Iran’s conditions are met.
Russian state news agency TASS relayed the Guards’ claim that the ships ran dark on an unauthorised route and blamed US military action.
Polymarket traders give a US-Iran Hormuz agreement by 31 December a 36% chance, down 3 points in a week.
How each outlet framed it
- Mehr News Agency
- frames the closure as a legitimate IRGC control regime, citing global oil shortages and depleted reserves in Europe and the US
- TASS leans critical
- attributes the tanker explosions to vessels that disabled AIS and used a route with US military help, warning they face the same fate
- Middle East Eye leans critical
- quotes the IRGC's 'American invading military' framing and warns that defiance 'will have no other fate'
Sources: Mehr News Agency, TASS, Middle East Eye