Reuters cited Der Spiegel as saying that Iran's Revolutionary Guards chief has drafted a plan to cause an environmental disaster in the Strait of Hormuz to block seaborne oil exports with the goal of removing economic sanctions imposed on Tehran the weekly.

As per report, Mohammad Ali Jafari's plan codenamed Muddy Water envisages the Iranians steering a tanker onto the rocks in the Strait the world's most important oil shipping waterway.

The aim is to block shipping temporarily through the contamination, to punish adjacent Arab states that are hostile to Iran and to force the West to take part in a large scale cleanup of the waters and possibly thereby a suspension of sanctions against Tehran. A decontamination would only be possible with technical help from the Iranian authorities and for this the embargo would have to be at least temporarily lifted.

Der Spiegel gave no source for its report but said Western intelligence services were studying the plan which it said now required only the approval of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to be put into effect.

Source - Reuters

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