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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Targets Togolese-Flagged Trend Tanker In Strait Of Hormuz
IRGC says it struck the Togolese-flagged tanker Trend during alleged illegal transit through Hormuz. UKMTO and others report unknown projectile caused a fire; fire extinguished; crew safe.
Who carried out the strike.
8 of 12 outlets skipped it: the incident is said to involve a Togo-flagged vessel named Trend.
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Mehr News Agency
“The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said that an oil tanker flying the flag of Togo was hit”Read the original ↗
Anadolu Ajansı
“struck by “an unknown projectile” in the Strait of Hormuz, sparking a fire onboard”Read the original ↗
Mehr News Agency and News.az attribute the strike to Iran’s IRGC, while Anadolu Ajansı and UKMTO reports frame it as an unknown projectile.
Tanker Fire in Hormuz
A tanker was struck by an “unknown projectile” in the Strait of Hormuz, sparking a fire onboard that the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said “has since been extinguished.”
“The fire "has since been extinguished," the UKMTO added”
The UKMTO said the crew were safe and that environmental impact was “unconfirmed at present,” while calling on transiting ships to exercise caution and report suspicious activity to the UKMTO Center.
In a separate claim carried by IRNA, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had targeted an oil tanker flying the Togolese flag, naming the vessel Trend, and said it tried to cross the Strait of Hormuz “illegally with the incitement and misdirection of the U.S. military.”
The IRGC statement said forces targeted the tanker and forced it to stop after a fire broke out on board, as the UKMTO account focused on the projectile and the extinguished blaze.
Competing Claims and Warnings
The UKMTO Center said the incident was reported through a statement released via X, with the agency urging ships to “report any suspicious activity to UKMTO while authorities investigate.”
Al Jazeera’s account also relayed the IRGC Navy commander, Admiral Ali Asgamaei, saying the tanker Trend was targeted and forced to stop after a fire broke out on board.
Arab News framed the same UKMTO message by quoting that the CSO of a vessel reported “a tanker being hit by an unknown projectile, causing a fire onboard which has since been extinguished,” while adding that the environmental impact was “unconfirmed.”
Arab News then described the Iranian side as stating it struck the Togo-flagged oil tanker Trend after a fire broke out, and said the UKMTO had also reported a “security incident” in Hormuz late on Thursday, with it unclear whether the two reports referred to the same event.
Regional Shipping Stakes
The incident unfolded in a wider context of Hormuz tensions, with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards linking the Trend episode to an “illegal passage” and warning that unauthorized passage would lead to the “destruction” of offending vessels.
“approximately 20% of global oil supplies and around 25% of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports pass through it.”
AzerNews described the Strait of Hormuz as the narrow passage between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, noting that “approximately 20% of global oil supplies and around 25% of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports pass through it.”
India Today said Iran struck the Togo-flagged oil tanker Trend over what it called an “illegal attempt” to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, while also reporting that a separate ship “security incident” was reported “16 nautical miles northeast of Khasab in Oman.”
India Today added that South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung said his government was considering expanding the operations of a naval unit in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen and Somalia to protect South Korean vessels and oil shipping routes, while stressing, “there will be no troop deployment that involves or intervenes in the war.”