Iranian Revolutionary Guard: “Severe explosion” in a gas tanker east of the Strait of Hormuz

(CNN) - The Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced, on Friday, that a “violent explosion” had occurred on a ship transporting liquefied gas east of the Strait of Hormuz.

This came in a statement by the Revolutionary Guards carried by the official Iranian News Agency, which stated: “Hours ago, a ship transporting liquefied gas in the eastern Strait of Hormuz attempted to ignore repeated warnings and cross through the unauthorized and dangerous southern route in the Strait, which led to it colliding with a sea mine, resulting in a violent explosion.”

The Revolutionary Guard added in its statement: “The ship did not learn from what happened to the oil tankers that exploded previously, and chose to cross with the support of American fighters, ignoring that sea mines never coordinate with the smuggling and aggressing American army to hunt down their targets, so it was exposed to a severe explosion.”

The statement went on to say: “The Strait of Hormuz is managed, thanks to God, with all firmness and seriousness, and that any ship that attempts to violate the Iranian laws applied there, ignores the warnings of the Navigation Traffic Control Center of the Revolutionary Guard Naval Forces, and enters unauthorized and high-risk routes, will meet the fate of the previous ships.”