Four oil tankers destroyed by naval mines in Strait of Hormuz, IRGC announces
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said four oil tankers were destroyed after striking naval mines while trying to traverse a route described as prohibited south of the key waterway of the Strait of Hormuz.In a statement, the elite corps said the tankers were still ablaze, and added that two other vessels had been seized.On Sunday, the IRGC announced that two oil tankers had hit Iranian mines while transiting the Strait of Hormuz.The tankers "were in violation of regulations," the spokesperson said, explaining that they were traveling on "an unauthorized route in the Strait."The IRGC spokesperson added that oil tankers had switched off the navigation and identification systems, as they wanted "to pass covertly through an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz with the support of the terrorist US military."Oil tanker hit by projectile, UKMTO announcesAn oil tanker passing through the Strait of Hormuz was also hit by an unknown projectile earlier on Sunday, the United Kingdom Maritime and Trade Operations (UKMTO) Center announced.Esther Davis contributed to this report.
Left out here: Leaves out what changes the picture
The article never says that the mines were struck during the US-Israeli war on Iran, or that the IRGC's statement came a day after US officials said the US military had launched strikes on Iran, at Qeshm. The BBC says those strikes followed the IRGC firing on a US aircraft. Without this, a reader sees Iran's mining of a shipping route with no sign of the war around it. The article is about the tanker incident itself, so this is a gap in background rather than a false picture of the event.
How we know
- BBC News reported“a day after US officials said the US military had launched strikes on the country”Four tankers destroyed by naval mines in Strait of Hormuz, Iran's IRGC says (opens in a new tab)
- The Jerusalem Post wrote earlier“aimed at pushing for a deal to end the US-Israeli war on Iran”Iranian negotiators in Doha to continue talks to end the US-Iran war, official says (opens in a new tab)