Was coming to post about the same. The fraudian piece on this is very slapdash, even for them, but also quite guarded as if they don't want to get saddled with any blame when this is exposed:
Two oil tankers have been hit in suspected attacks in the Gulf of Oman and the crews evacuated, a month after a similar incident in which four tankers in the region were struck.
The US navy’s fifth fleet said it was assisting the tankers, which issued distress calls near the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
Reports of the explosions originally came from the same Hezbollah-linked news agencies in Lebanon that correctly reported attacks on tankers docked off the coast of the UAE in May. The US blamed those attacks on Iran – an accusation Tehran has denied.
The suspected attacks occurred on one of the world’s busiest oil routes, and the price of oil surged as the initial reports emerged.
Front Altair was carrying 75,000 tonnes of naphtha, a petrochemical feedstock, when it was “suspected of being hit by a torpedo”, said Wu I-Fang from Taiwan’s state oil refiner CPC, which chartered the tanker. Iran state media reported that the Front Altair had sunk, though the ship’s operator, Frontline, said this was not the case.
The Kokuka Courageous was damaged in a “suspected attack” that breached the hull above the water line while on passage from Saudi Arabia to Singapore, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement said. “The ship is safely afloat,” it added.
The lack of detail and the language all suggest that they actually realise this won't pass the smell test. It's incredibly dodgy all round. It fails the same common sense test that the "gas" attacks in Syria failed; what would be the dumbest thing Iran could do while the US is gagging for any excuse to attack it? Attack shipping in the Straits of Hormuz and hand the US/Israel/Saudi/UK alliance of lunatics a ready-made excuse to rattle the sabres.
Also, they made sure the ships that were hit were not carrying any particularly valuable cargo.