TehranIran says 2 supertankers carrying over 4 million barrels exploded.
The Revolutionary Guards Navy says only lanes it approves are safe to transit.
Iranian state media blamed naval mines on the southern route the Guards declared unauthorised.
The UK Maritime Trade Operations agency has said several tankers in the strait were hit by unknown projectiles.
Polymarket traders give a US-Iran Hormuz agreement by 31 December a 28% chance, down 9 points in a week.
How each outlet framed it
- TASS
- relays IRGC claim that the tankers struck after ignoring its 'unauthorized' southern route, with the tankers' 4 million barrels and the warning to vessels cooperating with US forces
- Reuters
- adds that Iranian state media said the tankers hit naval mines, and recalls the IRGC's earlier strikes on tankers and UKMTO's reports of projectile attacks
- Mehr News Agency leans critical
- casts the tankers' fate as the result of trusting the 'plundering and aggressor' US military, and carries the IRGC warning that vessels switching off navigation systems meet the same fate
Sources: TASS, Reuters, Mehr News Agency