In a classified and closed-door briefing to the American Congress. The Pentagon estimated that the demining of the Strait might take six months. The American defense later denied the information.
Where is the Strait of Hormuz located? The question of demining this critical point of global trade has few reliable sources of information. According to the Washington Post, the Pentagon estimated that demining the area could take six months during a classified presentation to the American Congress.
The newspaper cites three anonymous officials who said, “lawmakers were informed that Iran may have laid twenty or more mines in the Strait of Hormuz and its surroundings.” According to a Defense official’s presentation, “some were placed in the water remotely using GPS technology, complicating their detection. Others were ‘laid by Iranian forces’ using small boats.”
“Unethical Journalism”
Since then, a Pentagon spokesperson denied the information to AFP, denouncing “leaks, much of which is false, from a classified and closed-door briefing” which he believes are part of “unethical journalism.” According to Sean Parnell, Deputy Secretary of the Navy for Public Affairs, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz for six months “is impossible and totally unacceptable.”
In mid-April, the Revolutionary Guards warned of a “dangerous area” of 1,400 km2, fourteen times the size of Paris, where mines could be present. Last week, Donald Trump stated that Tehran, “with the assistance of the United States, (had) removed, or (was…)”
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