The US military said it attacked and destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the strait of Hormuz amid reports that Iran has begun laying explosive devices in the strategically vital waterway.

Citing intelligence sources, CNN on Tuesday reported that Iran has laid a few dozen mines in the strait in recent days and has the capability to sow hundreds more.

About one-fifth of the world’s oil passes through the strait, and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said earlier this week it will not allow even “one litre of oil” to leave the region if US-Israeli attacks continue.

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    7 days ago

    Yeah, guess they didn’t destroy Iran’s “whole navy”. It’s going to turn out to be that these were fishing boats, and probably not Iranian ones, to boot.

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    hmm. a few days ago trump said they had destroyed the while iranian navy. Are mine layers considered to ne part of the navy

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      If those little rafts are enough to be considered a part of a navy then everyone on my block has his own personal navy.