Battles with the participation of the Iranian and US Navies took place in the Strait of Hormuz

For an hour in Sporadic battles involving Iranian and American ships took place in the Strait of Hormuz. This was reported on May 8 by the Iranian Fars news agency.

"It's been a few hours in Sporadic clashes are taking place in the Strait of Hormuz between the Iranian armed forces and American vessels," the publication says.

The day before, Fox News journalist Jennifer Griffin reported that the US Armed Forces attacked the Iranian port of Qeshm, located on the island of the same name, which is the largest in the The Strait of Hormuz, and the city of Bandar Abbas. Fars also reported a shootout in the southern part of Iran between the Iranian armed forces and their "opponents."

On May 6, US President Donald Trump announced that three world-class American destroyers had passed through the Strait of Hormuz. He said that many Iranian small vessels were destroyed during the collision. According to him, Iran fired missiles and UAVs at American destroyers.

On the same day, Iran's state television company IRIB, citing a military intelligence official, reported that the Iranian Armed Forces fired missiles at the US ship in The Strait of Hormuz. According to IRIB, this happened in response to the American attack on an Iranian oil tanker.

The Iranian Tasnim news agency reported on May 8 that clashes between the armed forces of the two countries in The Persian Gulf stopped. The cause of the incident was the actions of American forces against Iranian oil tankers, the Iranian naval forces returned fire, Izvestia clarifies.