United States Fifth Fleet

Force in Play

On November 7 US aircraft disabled a commercial vessel in the Gulf of Oman as it tried to run the blockade; on November 10 the US coordinated a Saudi oil tanker's transit through Hormuz.

Iran said two oil tankers hit mines and caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz on November 8. A third vessel also burned, bringing the number of ships hit since the start of November to at least 12. The US military disabled a commercial vessel in the Gulf of Oman, and Iran's Revolutionary Guard later disabled navigation systems on four tankers using a route it considers unauthorized. Ship tracking put Hormuz traffic at about 5% of pre-war levels on November 10.

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