TEHRAN, November 2. /TASS/. Eleven tankers violating passage rules in the Strait of Hormuz have caught fire since October 25, with some of them sinking, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said.

"Eleven violator tankers have caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz since October 25 alone (when Commander of the US Central Command (CENTCOM) Bradley Cooper made a demonstrative visit to the Strait of Hormuz). Some of the vessels sank," the IRGC Navy wrote on X.