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Shafaq News- Tehran\/ Washington<\/p>\n
Two oil tankers exploded and caught fire south of the Strait of
\nHormuz, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reported on Friday,
\nclaiming the vessels had attempted to transit \u201ca mine-laid shipping route.\u201d<\/p>\n
In statements, the IRGC alleged the tankers had been
\n“deceived” by US intelligence services into using the route. It also
\ndeclared the Strait of Hormuz “completely closed” because of ongoing
\nUS military operations, warning commercial vessels to avoid the mined corridor.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs long as US attacks continued, no oil, gas or petrochemical
\nexports would leave the region,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
Earlier today, US Central Command (CENTCOM) disclosed a new round of
\nstrikes<\/a> against Iran for the seventh consecutive night, stating the operation
\naimed to further \u201cdegrade Iran’s military capabilities.\u201d Iranian media detailed
\nexplosions<\/a> in the southern cities of Qeshm, Bushehr, Sirik, and Bandar Abbas,
\nwhile state television confirmed three blasts in the Bamani area of Sirik in
\nHormozgan province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-17T22:26:41+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Tehran\/ Washington Two oil tankers exploded and caught…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16993,4,450,1919,451,226770,192349,328640,3,228047,210369,452,453],"class_list":["post-769874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-explosion","tag-headlines","tag-irgc","tag-mine","tag-mine-blasts-set-two-tankers-ablaze-near-hormuz","tag-news","tag-oil-tankers","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}