The Iranian media have released a statement from the Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps according to which the Iranian naval forces reportedly stopped two ships of the group Mediterranean Shipping Company who allegedly tried to force the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz to cross it without Tehran's authorization. This is the MSC container ship Francesca, whom the Iranian Navy denounces to be connected to the Israeli regime, and the container ship Epaminondas. The two ships are just over nine nautical miles offshore of the Iranian coastal city of Sirik, confirming the Veracity of the Iranian Navy's announcement that the container ships would have been conducted in territorial waters Iranian countries. Previously both ships were in the Persian Gulf in waiting to be able to cross the Strait. The press release states that the two container ships would have tried to make not traceable their navigation.

Meanwhile, the British United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) announced that the master of a cargo ship located in eight nautical miles west of Iran in the Gulf of Oman reported that she had been hit by bullets and that she had currently stopped. No damage to the crew was reported nor to the ship.