Illustrative image. (U.S. Navy)
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that it destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz on March 10.
The command made the announcement on X, attaching a video showing strikes hitting eight vessels of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (IRIN) and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy. Only one of the vessels appeared to be an actual mine-laying vessel, most of the rest were missile boats.
Strikes on five other Iranian military vessels were seen in footage released earlier in the day by CENTCOM. Again, most of the vessels hit were missile boats. One, however, was a Shahid Soleimani-class corvette of the IRGC Navy, and another was a Ghadir-class midget submarine.
Earlier, several American media reports claimed that U.S. intelligence had started seeing indications that Iran is taking steps to deploy mines in the Strait of Hormuz. The waterway is the world’s most critical maritime chokepoint, with approximately 20.9 million barrels of oil per day — roughly one-fifth of global consumption passing through.
Following the reports, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Truth Social that the American military had destroyed “10 inactive mine laying boats and/or ships, with more to follow!”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, from his side, said that CENTCOM “has been eliminating inactive mine-laying vessels in the Strait of Hormuz—wiping them out with ruthless precision. We will not allow terrorists to hold the Strait of Hormuz hostage.”
“To the weakened Iranian regime: you have officially been put on notice!” he added in an X post.
The IRGC previously warned that any ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz would be attacked, and the waterway has effectively been closed since the start of the American-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic, with multiple tankers hit by Iranian fire nearby.
Both the guards and the IRIN are more than capable of blocking the strategic waterway, using not just mine-laying vessels, but also unmanned fast boats, unmanned underwater vessels, and shore-based anti-ship missile batteries.
Iran has not yet officially announced that it would close the waterway, but responding to threats by Trump earlier in the day, the Islamic Republic’s security chief Ali Larijani said that the Strait of Hormuz will either be a strait of peace and prosperity for all or a strait of defeat and suffering for “warmongers.”
The U.S. Navy will not likely be able to escort vessels through the waterway, as this would expose its own warships to Iranian fire. In addition, the ongoing military campaign against the naval forces of the Islamic Republic will not likely affect most of their anti-shipping capabilities.
It is very likely that the U.S. has lost the battle for the Strait of Hormuz before it even began. An agreement of some sort seems the only way to keep the waterway open.
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withdraw the ships iran. the us will just piecemeal destroy the navy ship by ship with their aircraft. do as the houthi and enforce with missiles and drones. if you were going to mine the straits then you should mine and withdraw. any mine clearing operations should be targeted.
the iranians have submarines specifically designed to lay mines .. don’t know why they aren’t using them to do so. almost undetectable.
the mullah-hunt is just beginning…heheheh…
kerboom!!! take out a tanker and win a coconut!
they should have just mined it already. a partial blockade won’t do and your ships are sitting ducks to satan’s navy. mine and gtfo of the area. anyone trying to enter the area should be hit with missiles and drones like the houthis do. satan targets your navy because they are easy targets for them.
abracadabra pata de cabra, may the strait of hormuz pronto se abra.
haha, from 1,000km away? i don’t think so! american govt put the ass in ass clowns.
enjoying the show
ussa going down. it control nothing. take a look around, they are losing control everywhere
trump the chump got dumped
take a look at shitrael beit shemesh satellite radar base site. reduced to rubble. you want more? you will get more. i hear many shitraelis are disappointed in zionism and netanyahu’s 1 day operation
would that be like the ‘escort’ of tankers through the strait as claimed by the pentagon on ‘x” — and then deleted 5 minutes later ?
iran doesn’t actually need to mine the area. it could just dump hundreds of blow up dummy plastic mines into the sea and kill themselves laughing watching the amerikunts and the arab quislings panicking and filling their diapers.
an agreement? with zionist liars? what world are they in? how many times is iran supposed to ‘talk’ with these duplicitous liars? the best thing iran can do is to keep hitting every base that can launch a plane. sending a swarm to the u.s. fleet wouldn’t hurt either.
or just a handful of real mines laid by mini submarines, motor boats or aircraft would close it permanently. any hostile minesweepers would be like ducks in a shooting gallery. the world has lost a quarter of its oil and gas till the jooz and the amerikunts put a stop to all their s*hitfu*kery. btw, the amerikunts don’t do minesweeping.
iran has minelayer rockets (an old technology from the ussr) and doesn’t need boats for that task. and they have autonomous torpedoes (mini submarines filled with explosives), which are like mobile mines and can’t be swept easily. these things are like sharks waiting for their prey under water.
trump wants to cover up the fact that he raped a little girl and that’s why he killed 165 iranian schoolgirls. he dreams of the nobel peace prize! he won’t get it. dragan paravinja, metod trobec and the murderers of danka ilić didn’t get peace prizes either! pedophile donald trump deserves to be locked up in a cell with puff daddy and his 1,000 bottles of baby oil. life imprisonment with black rapists. same goes for pedophile tom barrack. i would give him life imprisonment with paravinja
actually you will find that there are more white rapists in america than black. it’s been that way since 1776…..
americunts are lying as always!
“wessels”? is runjhun sharma writing their headlines now?
no reasonable human can believe any word from all us sources at this time in history. perhaps some day this might change