After a US destroyer opened fire in the Gulf of Oman on an Iranian-registered cargo ship attempting to evade the US naval blockade, the Iranian military vowed to respond. The cargo ship was en route from China to Iran at the time.
According to comprehensive foreign media reports, the Central Headquarters of Khatam Al-Anbia of the Iranian Armed Forces issued a statement in the early hours of the 20th, stating that on the 19th, the US blatantly violated the ceasefire agreement, opened fire on an Iranian commercial vessel in the waters of the Oman Sea, and dispatched US Marines to board the ship. The Iranian Armed Forces will soon retaliate and respond to this act of armed piracy by the US military.
According to the Iranian Bright News Agency in the early hours of the 20th, a spokesperson for the Central Headquarters of Khatam Al-Anbia of the Iranian Armed Forces said that on the 19th, US forces attacked an Iranian container cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman, after which the Iranian Armed Forces launched multiple drones to strike several American warships.
The US military stated that a cargo ship flying the Iranian flag was fired upon by US personnel while en route to the Port of Abbas in Iran. US President Trump wrote on social media: "We have fully taken control of this ship and are checking what is on board!"
Since the US military began its naval blockade of all Iranian ports in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman on the 13th, it has already forced 25 commercial vessels to turn back or return to Iranian ports.