MBABANE: A Commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said the Strait of Hormuz is closed warning that, any vessel attempting to pass through will be attacked, Aljazeera reported, quoting the Iranian State media.
“The strait is closed. If anyone tries to pass, the heroes of the Revolutionary Guard and the regular navy will set those ships ablaze,” Ebrahim Jabari, a Senior Adviser to the IRGC’s Commander-in-Chief, said on Monday.
Tehran has targeted infrastructure critical to the world’s energy production as part of its retaliation for the Israeli and United States bombing campaign that began on Saturday and killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior officials.
“We will also attack oil pipelines and will not allow a single drop of oil to leave the region. Oil price will reach $200 in the coming days,” Jabari said in a post on the IRGC’s Telegram channel.
“The Americans, with debts of thousands of billions of dollars, are dependent on the region’s oil, but they should know that not even a drop of oil will reach them,” he was also quoted as saying by the semi-official Tasnim News Agency.
The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower crosses the Strait of Hormuz into the Gulf [File: Information Technician Second Class Ruskin Naval/US Navy via AP]