Key facts
- An unnamed Revolutionary Guards Navy official told Iranian state media that navigation aid systems in the south of the Strait of Hormuz were destroyed.
- The same official said no unauthorised vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz overnight.
- The report did not say who destroyed the navigation aids, when they were destroyed or what the damage involved.
- The report did not define which vessels it counted as unauthorised or say how the official established which ships transited.
Navigation aid systems in the south of the Strait of Hormuz were destroyed and no unauthorised vessels transited the maritime route overnight, an unnamed Revolutionary Guards Navy official told Iranian state media, in a report published on November 9, 2026.
The report, carried by Reuters from its Dubai newsroom, gave no account of who destroyed the navigation aids, when the damage occurred or what it involved. It also did not define which vessels the official counted as unauthorised, or say how the official established which ships passed through the strait.
The Strait of Hormuz is the channel through which the body says the transits took place. The report states no effect on shipping traffic, no closure of the route and no supply consequence.