[The U.S. military claims that Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and other claims are untrue] On October 16, the U.S. Central Command posted a message on the social platform The U.S. Central Command stated that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ statement that it controls the Strait of Hormuz is untrue. The United States and its regional partners still control the relevant waters and commercial ships continue to pass through. The United States also claimed that a container ship flying the Singapore flag did not hit a mine, but was hit by a missile from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and sank while being towed to the shore; more than 40 merchant ships still passed through the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours. In addition, the United States denies the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' statement that "hundreds of US military personnel were killed in Jordan", saying that only three US soldiers were killed in July this year while assisting partner forces to resist Iranian attacks. (CCTV News)