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2026-09-07 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

The US secretly cleared mines in the Strait of Hormuz for four months, according to media reports

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[Regnum] For four months, American forces conducted a covert nighttime operation to clear Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz.

What a lovely thing to do.

This was reported by the Financial Times on September 6.

According to the source, the operation involved US Navy special forces divers, robotic boats, and underwater vehicles with sonars equipped with high-precision side-scan systems, which operated on the bottom of the Strait of Hormuz primarily at night.

"A complex explosive ordnance disposal operation by US Navy divers took four months, underwater and in the dark, in an attempt to remove a critical barrier preventing ships from transporting cargo through the strait," the publication said.

Iran, for its part, denies US successes, claiming new mines have been planted in the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran insists that only it knows the actual location of the mines, the publication writes.

On August 28, Admiral Brad Cooper, head of US Central Command, announced that the US military had completely cleared mines laid by the Iranian military in the Strait of Hormuz. During the months-long operation, the US ensured the safe passage of approximately 1,500 commercial vessels through the strait.

On August 25, US President Donald Trump also announced that the US Navy had cleared all mines in the Strait of Hormuz. He added that Iran had received a warning that any ship laying new mines would be immediately destroyed.

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1 According to media reports?
Because if there's anyone trustworthy it's them!
The ones who reported that Russia interfered with our elections and planted Hunter Biden's laptop to smear Biden.

Posted by Clyde Thaviling6482 2026-09-07 01:17|| 2026-09-07 01:17|| Front Page Top

2 Something tells me all this talk about mines--laying and clearing them--is total bullshit.

Posted by DooDahMan 2026-09-07 05:14|| 2026-09-07 05:14|| Front Page Top

3 Pull the other one

Posted by Dopey Photch2701 2026-09-07 06:33|| 2026-09-07 06:33|| Front Page Top

Posted by Gloluter Phavick7614 2026-09-07 08:20|| 2026-09-07 08:20|| Front Page Top

5 For all the talk of mines, there has been a notable lack of confirmed ship/mine collisions. This is curious given how cheap and easy to deploy mines are.

Rating: Plausible

Posted by SteveS 2026-09-07 08:36|| 2026-09-07 08:36|| Front Page Top

6 We had a report recently that many of the things floating in Strait were only pretending to be mines, to include inflated black trash bags; only a smallish percent were actually capable of exploding. Apparently even “cheap” is beyond Iran’s purse nowadays.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-09-07 09:02|| 2026-09-07 09:02|| Front Page Top

7 Iran says it plans to create new ‘restricted zone’ near Strait of Hormuz — as it desperately tries to control chokepoint

Posted by Frank G 2026-09-07 09:12|| 2026-09-07 09:12|| Front Page Top

8 [TWZ] Iranian Launchers Struck By U.S. Held Exotic And Highly Concerning Rocket-Delivered Sea Mines

Posted by Skidmark 2026-09-07 10:08|| 2026-09-07 10:08|| Front Page Top

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