HMM: Five Hormuz Incidents Reported Monday as Tanker Attacks Mount.

UK Maritime Trade Operations reported five separate incidents involving commercial shipping in or near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, including four tanker attacks and an incident in which Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened another vessel with attack.

Three of the four attack notices were time-late reports covering incidents from October 3 and 4, while the latest strike occurred Monday afternoon. The concentration of reports underscores both the intensity of the recent violence and the difficulty of establishing what is happening in the Strait in real time.

The latest incident, UKMTO 156-26, occurred at 1637 UTC Monday when the master of a tanker reported being struck by an unknown projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

The strike caused a fire in the vessel’s engine room, which the crew was fighting when UKMTO issued its warning. No casualties or environmental impact had been reported.

The attack followed four other Hormuz-related notices issued earlier Monday.

Last gasp of a dying regime or something else?