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MapIRGC Spokesperson Hossein Mohebbi Says Mines Are Ready, Strait of Hormuz Under IRGC Navy Control
“any vessel violating its rules risks hitting mines in the high-risk zone.”
“Nothing comes through the Hormuz Strait without our approval.”
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Strait of Hormuz fully under IRGC Navy control. Mines are ready to deter violators in Hormuz.
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IRGC mines threat
An IRGC spokesperson warned that “Mines are ready,” and said the Strait of Hormuz is “entirely under the control of the IRGC Navy.” The IRGC spokesperson, Brigadier General Hossein Mohebbi, said any vessel that violates the rules will face “a fate no different than encountering drifting mines within the dangerous zone of the Strait of Hormuz.”
Hossein Mohebbi maintained that “Our forces maintain a military presence in the strait, which will remain closed until our conditions are met,” and he linked Iran’s control to “oil shortages” and prices “still far above pre-war levels.” Tehran also framed the situation as a sustained enforcement of navigation restrictions, with Tehran Times saying the strait remains under restrictions on maritime passage after the US and Israel launched their war against the Islamic Republic on February 28.
US claims and Iran rejects
Donald Trump told reporters he “could be an occupier” in Iran, and he claimed the United States controls the Strait of Hormuz while “We’re taking out more oil now than we have at any time in the history of the Hormuz Strait.”
Trump also said, “We control the Hormuz Strait,” and he added, “We’re taking out more oil now than we have at any time in the history of the Hormuz Strait.”
Iran rejected the US claims of controlling the strait, and the Anadolu Ajansı report said Tehran “will not reopen it until its conditions are met.”
Sahara Reporters added that Trump insisted, “Nothing comes through the Hormuz Strait without our approval. Nothing is going to Iran. No oil is going to Iran,” while also describing the blockade as “the greatest in military history.”
Shipping incidents and leverage
Tehran Times said the IRGC Navy reported that three oil tankers suffered explosions and caught fire in unauthorized shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz, with thick smoke spreading across the sky above the waterway. The IRGC Navy statement in the Tehran Times account said the tankers were ablaze after switching off their navigation and identification systems and as a result of the “malicious actions of the US military’s smuggling and aggressor force.”
The Tehran Times account also quoted IRGC spokesperson Major General Hossein Mohebbi urging observers to “Look at the reality of the Strait of Hormuz through the events unfolding there,” and it said he reiterated that the strategic waterway remains under Iran's control. Sahara Reporters said Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claimed that two oil tankers struck mines and caught fire in or near the waterway, and it described the strait as normally carrying “oil equivalent to about one-fifth of global consumption.”