US says two naval ships ‘transited’ Strait of Hormuz for mine-clearing

The mines Iran had are not distinguishing between a Panamanian flagged VLCC that loaded in Iran and is bound for India and a Panamanian flagged VLCC that loaded in Iraq and is bound for India. I'm not sure why people keep making this claim.

Have the most peaceful sleeps knowing the person in power here isn’t a pedo like in America.

Probably people who don't like what I said because they don't understand the difference between fact based reporting and hearsay. I can't be sure though because they downvote silently. I certainly don't trust the IRGC but the same goes for the current US administration, who have repeatedly shown that will lie for dear leader. I see no reason that wouldn't also apply to CENTCOM after Hegseth's purges in the military. This could also be a disagreement about how far the ships went before turning around, and the definition of the entrance and exit to the strait. There's just not a lot of clarify about what happened. Fog of war, after all. I saw [this article](https://news.usni.org/2026/04/11/two-u-s-warships-sail-through-strait-of-hormuz-to-establish-new-route-for-merchant-ships) stating that "ship spotters" reported the transit, but it doesn't identify any ship spotter, doesn't name a location where the sightings occurred, and doesn't say how many spotters reported the passage. There is a photo the Navy released showing a destroyer transiting the strait on April 11, can anyone geolocate those islands in the background? I can't find them. EDIT: After further research it appears to be the [As Salamah Archipelago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Salamah_Archipelago) in Omani waters. The central island is Didimar Island. Based on the orientation of the island in the photo (the lighthouse is on the left side of it but obscured). I'd say that the destroyer was east of the islands and heading Southwest, toward Oman. This would suggest that if they did go through they likely passed south of the Achipelago, close to Oman. Although, since this is taken from the Gulf of Oman side, this doesn't actually provide any evidence of them getting all the way through. That route is considered an alternative the normal shipping lanes but is high risk because of shallow areas, so it's possible that some traffic could avoid the tolls by going that way if the US can get rid of any mines that might be there.