TehranIran targeted 11 tankers in 10 days, its media say.
Brent crude stood at $97.29 on 6 November, down 7.1% in a week.
Iran’s navy says a tanker hit a mine after entering a restricted area with transponders off.
Polymarket traders give a US-Iran Hormuz agreement by 31 December a 35% chance.
How each outlet framed it
- Middle East Monitor
- relays the Iranian navy's account that the tanker switched off identification in a restricted zone before the mine strike
- Mehr News Agency
- carries the Iranian Navy's warning that Hormuz stays closed to rule-violating vessels until all threats are eliminated
- Mehr News Agency
- claims 11 tankers were targeted in 10 days and that IRGC disabled US-operated navigation on four, leaving them stranded and burning
Sources: Middle East Monitor, Mehr News Agency (1, 2)