The media reported on the collisions of Iranian and US vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.

Sporadic fighting involving Iranian and American ships has been taking place in the Strait of Hormuz for an hour. This was reported on May 8 by the Iranian Fars news agency.

"For several hours now, sporadic clashes have been taking place in the Strait of Hormuz between the Iranian armed forces and American vessels," the Telegram channel said.

The day before, Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin reported that the US Armed Forces attacked the Iranian port of Qeshm, located on the island of the same name, which is the largest in the Strait of Hormuz, and the city of Bandar Abbas. Fars also reported a shootout in the southern part of Iran between the Iranian Armed Forces and their "opponents."

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On May 6, US President Donald Trump announced that three world-class American destroyers had passed through the Strait of Hormuz. He clarified that many Iranian small vessels were destroyed during the collision. According to him, Iran fired missiles and UAVs at the American destroyers.

On the same day, Iran's state-owned IRIB television company, citing a military intelligence official, reported that the Iranian armed forces fired missiles at a US ship in the Strait of Hormuz. According to IRIB, this happened in response to the American attack on an Iranian oil tanker.

The Iranian Tasnim news agency reported on May 8 that clashes between the armed forces of the two countries in the Persian Gulf had stopped. It is specified that the cause of the incident was the actions of American forces against Iranian oil tankers, the Iranian naval forces returned fire.