US Centcom rejects Iranian reports of vessels hitting Hormuz sea mines

US Centcom rejects Iranian reports of vessels hitting Hormuz sea mines The US military said on Wednesday that claims from Iranian media that commercial vessels transiting through the Strait of Hormuz were hitting sea mines were "false". "All internationally recognized primary transit routes through the Strait of Hormuz have been cleared of sea mines by US forces and remain so," US Central Command (Centcom) wrote in a post on X, adding that "thousands of commercial vessels have safely used the transit lanes and cont