On Wednesday, the U.S Navy displayed the fragments of the limpet mine and magnet that was removed from one the oil tankers attacked near the Strait of Hormuz last week. According to the Navy experts, the mines are strikingly similar to the Iranian mines.

The United States has been trying to prove to the world that Iran has been responsible for the recent attack on two tankers and the attack on four tankers on May 12 in the Persian Gulf.

Tehran denies any involvement in either of the attacks, but before the last round of sanctions by the United States on Iran’s petrochemicals Iranian leaders repeatedly threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz and not allow any other country to sell oil “if Iran is not able to export its oil”.

The U.S military previously presented several photos and videos showing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) removing an unexploded limpet mine from the Japanese-owned tanker.

The owner of the Japanese company had claimed that some crew had seen flying objects hitting the ship, but the U.S navy experts say the scars and the punctures on the ship’s body could not have been from flying objects, but limpet mines.