Trump Officials Make Hoaxes US Warships Control Tankers Passing Hormuz Strait

Illustration of a naval aircraft carrier. (Unsplash-Vidar Nordli-Mathisen)

JAKARTA - The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) denied claims by US Energy Secretary Chris Wright that a US Navy warship escorted a tanker through the Strait of Hormuz without incident.

The claim of the US Energy Minister in his social media post was later deleted.

"Not a single US warship during the war dared to approach the Sea of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the Strait of Hormuz," said an unnamed IRGC spokesman, Wednesday, March 11, quoted by Al Jazeera.

Separately, the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf on Tuesday night, March 10, accused the upload of evidence that the US deliberately spread disinformation to manipulate the world oil market amid the threat of an energy crisis that emerged as a result of the US-Israeli attack on Iran impacting oil supplies in the Strait of Hormuz.

The post claiming the US Energy Minister for the strength of the US military in the Strait of Hormuz, which was actually a hoax, was deleted about 30 minutes after it was uploaded.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt later also confirmed that there was no US military ship operation escorting tankers in traffic as one-fifth of global oil supplies as stated by the US Energy Minister.