“Last night, two offending oil tankers—ignoring repeated warnings from the IRGC Navy’s Strait of Hormuz Traffic Control Center regarding the unauthorized and unsafe nature of the southern route—encountered an incident while transiting this prohibited path, resulting in a massive explosion that brought them to a standstill,” the Public Relations office of the IRGC Navy announced in a statement on Thursday.

“Both vessels are supertankers, collectively carrying over 4 million barrels of oil,” it said, adding that they are now engulfed in flames—a consequence of their misplaced trust in the aggressor US military.

“Any vessel in the Persian Gulf or the Strait of Hormuz that disables its navigation systems and collaborates with the US military—which acts like a smuggler—to traverse the unauthorized southern route of the Strait of Hormuz will face a similar fate,” the statement emphasized.