IRGC Navy Says Three Tankers Have Exploded and Burned on an Unauthorised Hormuz Route Since Dawn Sunday

In a statement carried by ISNA and Tasnim on Sunday, 8 November 2026 (17 Aban 1405), the public relations office of the IRGC Navy said that since the early hours of the day three tankers on an "unauthorised route" through the Strait of Hormuz have suffered explosions and severe fires, with smoke covering the strait. The IRGC says the vessels had switched off their navigation and identification systems, and attributes the incidents to their going along with US forces to transit routes the IRGC rejects.

The statement gives no vessel names, flags, cargoes or casualties, and no independent account of these three incidents was found in the sources reviewed; earlier reports of tanker fires in Hormuz had appeared between 2 and 6 November. CENTCOM said on Sunday morning that it had disabled a cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman.