CENTCOM disputes the IRGC claim that the Panama-flagged oil tanker El Gaia hit naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s security chief Mohsen Rezaei says the stakes around oil and the strait have changed, and that there will be no talks with the US until Iran’s demands are met.
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