Sepah News
News outlet of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
On 29 October 2026 a Sepah News statement from the Guards' navy said three "violating" tankers had hit mines on the southern exit from Hormuz. China's Xinhua relayed it; only one fire, near Khasab, has outside confirmation.
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IRGC Navy says mines hit three tankers
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Sepah News is the official news website of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, run by the Guards' public relations office. BBC Monitoring reported its launch as the Guards' official site in 2007.
Since 2007 it has carried the Guards' own account of their operations. Those statements give the official IRGC position; they do not confirm the events they describe, and outside reporting has to test them.
In the Hormuz war its claims travel fast. The 29 October mine statement reached foreign readers through Xinhua, China's state agency, within the day. The Guards said all three tankers had used the southern route through Oman's waters, a claim that casualty records from abandoned crews could later test.
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