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🚨 🇮🇷 Iran's navy says a tanker hit mines east of the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire
🚨 🇮🇷 Iran's navy says a tanker hit mines east of the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire
- 🇮🇷 Iran's navy says an oil tanker it calls 'offending' hit sea mines east of the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire, per Iranian state media carried by newswires at
- 🇮🇷 There is no independent confirmation yet of the vessel's name, its flag, casualties or the extent of the damage
FO view: A mine strike in the Hormuz approaches, as Iran tells it, is a direct shipping risk that cuts against this afternoon's signs of Saudi exports back at pre-war levels and keeps the Gulf premium in crude and havens.
Not investment advice.