Earlier today, Saturday, April 18, 2026, reports confirmed that an Indian-flagged supertanker was indeed fired upon by the Iranian Navy (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - IRGC) near the Strait of Hormuz.
A large Indian crude oil tanker carrying about two million barrels of Iraqi oil was on Saturday fired upon by the Iran Navy north of Oman, people aware of the matter said, shortly after reports came in that two Indian ships were forced to turn back from the Strait of Hormuz.
The Indian Navy is trying to ascertain details of the incident as there is no Indian Navy ship in the Straits of Hormuz, they added. India has two destroyers, one frigate and one tanker in the Gulf of Oman.
The officials said that India is taking the firing by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seriously and the country stands for open and free navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. They said that there was another Indian crude oil tanker next to the one that took fire, but it had not been in the incident.