The Revolutionary Guard responds to reports of targeting military centers in Isfahan... and an oil tanker fire in the Strait of Hormuz

On Saturday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard denied that any explosions had occurred in military centers in Isfahan Province, while the Iranian army announced that a fire had broken out in an oil tanker that it claimed was “violating” in the Strait of Hormuz, according to what was reported by the semi-official Iranian “Tasnim” news agency. The Revolutionary Guard said in a statement: “After the spread of some false news and materials in cyberspace and social media sites, claiming that the military centers in Isfahan were attacked by the American-Zionist enemy, we inform you that this news is fundamentally false, and that no explosion occurred today in the military centers in Isfahan.”

On the other hand, the Iranian army announced an accident involving an oil tanker that it claimed was “violating” east of the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian Army Naval Forces explained in a statement: “An illegal oil tanker was exposed to a fire, at dawn on Saturday, and stopped moving after colliding with a sea mine, while sailing in the unsafe and prohibited area east of the Strait of Hormuz, after it ignored previous warnings and turned off the tracking and identification systems,” according to what Tasnim Agency reported.

The Iranian army reiterated that “any violating oil tanker sailing in the restricted area east of the Strait of Hormuz will ignite as a result of colliding with sea mines,” claiming that oil tanker owners, without worrying about the fate of other violating naval vessels, trust the American president, so they send their capital to confront the mines and throw them into the furnace of fire,” according to “Tasnim.” In recent weeks, Iran has intensified its attacks on oil and gas tankers. And commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman, amid a stalemate in the talks aimed at ending the war with the United States.