Iran announces that 3 tankers have collided with mines in the Strait of Hormuz since Saturday

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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced on Sunday that a giant oil tanker collided with a sea mine on Sunday afternoon while trying to cross the Strait of Hormuz via the southern route, which led to an explosion and a fire in its engine room.

The semi-official Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA, reported that this is the third oil tanker, which it described as an “violation,” to catch fire since Saturday, while crossing what it called an “unpermitted route” in the Strait of Hormuz.

The agency confirmed that "all ships within the Strait of Hormuz that turn off their navigation and identification systems will be classified as hostile, and will be dealt with firmly and severely."

This comes as state media in Iran on Sunday quoted the Secretary-General of the Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, as saying that the United States’ response to the seven conditions put forward by Tehran for reopening the Strait of Hormuz is “insufficient.”

Iran presented a proposal during the United Nations General Assembly stipulating that the Strait of Hormuz could be reopened and maritime traffic could resume normally within seven days if the conditions were met, to which the United States later responded through Qatari mediators.

Rezaei said that Washington must clarify the issues that are still ambiguous to Tehran, and added, "We presented seven conditions to the Americans and clearly announced that the Strait of Hormuz will not be opened to them, and no negotiations will take place, until these conditions are met."

Rezaei stated that Iran "is no longer at the stage of responding to the Americans." "In their response, they accepted some of our conditions, while other conditions remain unclear," he added.

Tehran announced in late September that it had received an American response to its latest proposals to revive the ceasefire that collapsed, days after US President Donald Trump announced that he had rejected it.

Qatar and other mediators relay messages between Washington and Tehran in an attempt to end the conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas supplies passed before the war that broke out in late February.