Tehran has declared the Strait of Hormuz completely closed to all vessels and is threatening to attack ships. The US rejects this claim and continues to strike targets in Iran.
Iran has declared that any ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz will be considered a target for attack. The Mehr agency said the military command had ordered the strait to be completely closed to all vessels, including oil tankers and merchant ships. Thus, Tehran responded to the latest attacks by the United States. However, the US military has denied Iran’s claims of closing Hormuz. TASR informs about it according to the reports of the AFP agency and the al-Jazeera station.
“Any shipping through the Strait of Hormuz will be targeted for attack,” Iran’s Central Command Khatam al-Anbiya said, according to the Tasnim news agency, adding that the strait was now “completely closed to all types of vessels.”
Incidents in the Straits
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, quoted by IRIB state television and the Mehr news agency, reported that “two ships that tried to illegally cross the Strait of Hormuz were hit.”
The Iranian army also said that the closure of the strait was prompted by the changed security situation after the latest US attacks, DPA wrote.
US reaction
The US military later denied Tehran’s claim that Hormuz was completely closed. “TRUTH: Merchant ships continue to transit in and out of the Strait of Hormuz this evening,” the US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) posted on the X Network.
The US military announced shortly before midnight CEST that it was striking “multiple targets” inside Iran as part of the latest escalation of tensions. The attacks came after they were announced by US President Donald Trump and later by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Explosions and rocket attacks
Iranian media reported explosions in the south of the country near the Strait of Hormuz and west of Tehran. Air defense systems were activated in several places.
Fox New TV, citing Trump’s words, reported that the US military used 49 Tomahawk missiles in the latest attack, several of which hit targets just a few tens of kilometers from the Iranian capital.
