Security analyst Yair Goldblatt said Monday that the cause of recent explosions heard in southern Iran may be missiles fired by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) at vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. The claim is unverified and remains an assessment.
Security analyst Yair Goldblatt said Monday that recent explosions heard in southern Iran, which were reported overnight Sunday, may have been caused by missiles fired by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) at vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. The claim, posted on Monday, is speculative and has not been independently confirmed.
To date, The Zioneer reported the sequence of events from Sunday night: at 02:34 Jerusalem, initial reports of explosions off the coast of Sirik; minutes later, renewed explosion sounds in Sirik; and then a third update citing Iranian sources reporting missile launches targeting ships in the Strait of Hormuz, along with explosions heard in Bandar Abbas, Sirik Island, and Qeshm, according to Israeli journalist Hananel Aviv. All reports remained unverified, with no official Iranian confirmation. Goldblatt's assessment offers a specific causal hypothesis for those blasts but does not change the unverified status of the underlying reports.
Background: The Zioneer has documented a series of explosions and military activity in southern Iran and the Strait of Hormuz over the past month, including reports of air defense activity on June 11, warning shots on June 13, missile launches at naval vessels on July 8, and explosions in the Strait of Hormuz on July 9. Goldblatt himself previously reported Iranian claims that some strikes in the south were launched from Gulf states (as The Zioneer reported earlier on Monday).
The assessment remains unverified. No official source has confirmed that the explosions were directly caused by IRGC missile launches, and the specific claim that missiles hit ships has not been independently corroborated. The situation remains open.
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- StrongIran claims some strikes in the south were launched from Gulf states
- DevelopingIRGC fires warning shots at several vessels in the Strait of Hormuz
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