TehranA liquefied natural gas carrier exploded in Hormuz, Iran’s navy says.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say only routes they authorise are safe.
The Guards say the ship ignored repeated warnings and took an unauthorised southern route, under cover of US fighter jets.
No details on the ship, its flag or its crew are public.
Polymarket traders give a US-Iran Hormuz agreement by 31 December a 25% chance, down 11 points in a week.
How each outlet framed it
These outlets told this story very differently.
- Reuters
- adds a Washington Institute tally: 10 ships hit in the first 10 days of November, after 37 attacks in October
- TASS
- relays the IRGC claim that the LNG carrier transited under cover of US fighter jets, without independent confirmation
- Mehr News Agency leans critical
- adopts IRGC rhetoric casting US forces as 'smugglers and aggressors' and presenting the mines as a deterrent
- Middle East Eye
- describes the vessel as an LPG carrier, where Reuters and TASS say LNG, and quotes the IRGC's warning to future transits
Sources: Middle East Eye, Reuters, TASS, Mehr News Agency