Iran reportedly failed to locate all the naval mines it deployed in the Strait of Hormuz, preventing it from quickly reopening the critical shipping lane.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh said in an interview with ITV that the Iranian regime has laid naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. officials say Iranian forces seeded the strait with mines last month, however, Iran did not systematically track every placement and, in some cases, deployed mines in ways that allowed them to drift from their original positions, according to The New York Times.
As a result, Iranian authorities now cannot reliably map, locate, or recover all of the weapons they deployed.
The inability to account for the mines has become a key factor in Tehran’s failure to meet demands from the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday suspended a planned U.S. military strike on Iran for two weeks, citing
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