According to Tasnim News Agency, citing military sources, the US claim that "last night's attack was to prevent Iran from laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, and that this objective was successfully achieved" is pure fantasy and fabrication; last night's conflict had nothing to do with mine laying. The source pointed out that the Americans claimed to have cleared all mines while simultaneously claiming to have prevented new mine-laying operations last night. The question then becomes: how were the tankers that triggered the mines punished? The military source emphasized that last night, the US attempted to prevent Iran from punishing the offending vessels, but they failed. The offending vessels were punished; their bases in the region were attacked by Iranian missiles.
