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Oil tanker on fire after hitting mine in Strait of Hormuz

Verified: 18 outlets in 10 countries have reported this story since Nov 11.

📍 Strait of Hormuz, IR·🕐 12m ago·18 outlets

Tankers in recent weeks have attempted to navigate what were described as unauthorised routes in the waterway

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✓ Verified · 18 outletsin its last 2 days · 20 since Nov 11

Two or more outlets reported this story and its reliability score reached 65%, so WorldPulse marks it verified. That means more than one outlet says so, not that it is proven true.

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The Independent· National ↗Proto Thema· National ↗Al Jazeera· International ↗CNA (Channel NewsAsia)· International ↗WebIndia123· Aggregator ↗Asharq Al-Awsat· International ↗The National· National ↗Myrepublica· National ↗New Straits Times· National ↗Gulf News· National ↗

The story so far · 19 reports · · 11 countries · 18 in its last 2 days✓ Verified Nov 12, 8:07 AM UTC

Nov 11, 8:21 PM UTCFirst report
Iran's military reports explosions on two oil tankers perthnow.com.au ↗
Verified: a second independent outlet reported itNov 12, 8:07 AM UTC · +12 h
Nov 12, 5:42 PM UTC+21 h
Iran: Four Tankers Struck by Explosions in Strait of Hormuz english.aawsat.com ↗
Nov 12, 6:51 PM UTC+23 h
Four Oil Tankers Struck by Hormuz Explosions marinelink.com ↗
Nov 14, 6:13 AM UTC+2 d
Two oil tankers engulfed in flames in Strait of Hormuz after hitting mines, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say en.protothema.gr ↗
Nov 14, 8:57 AM UTC+3 d
Iran Guards say two oil tankers hit by mines in Hormuz myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com ↗
Nov 14, 10:51 AM UTC+3 d
Iran’s Navy Says Oil Tanker on Fire After Hitting Mine in Hormuz english.aawsat.com (again) ↗
Nov 14, 11:51 AM UTC+3 d· you’re reading this
Oil tanker on fire after hitting mine in Strait of Hormuzindependent.co.uk ↗

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PolitiFact· rated it Mostly False· Nov 11
Is more oil going through Hormuz than before the Iran war, as Byron Donalds said? No. ↗
The claim it checked: “There’s more oil going through the Strait (of Hormuz) today than there was pre-war.”

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cross checkwarning60%

[Claude] The outlets differ: Report 2 describes a single LPG carrier while Reports 3 and 4 say two oil tankers were hit, a count that cannot both match Report 1's single tanker, so those two disagree with it.

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Reliability

98%

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medium risk