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The threat to commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz has intensified after Iran claimed two unidentified oil tankers exploded and were immobilised while attempting to use the waterway’s southern passage. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the vessels had entered what it described as an unsafe or mined route under US pressure. It provided …