据一名西方安全官员称，伊朗每周都在向该水道内的商船发射无人机和导弹，尽管其往往未能击中目标。
Iran has been launching drones and missiles at commercial ships in the waterway each week, though it has often failed to strike its targets, according to a Western security official.
九月份几乎每天，伊朗媒体都会发布关于“从海上听到爆炸声”的报道，这一不祥之兆表明霍尔木兹海峡正在发生军事活动。但这些报道并未明确攻击者究竟是谁。事实证明，正是伊朗本身。
Almost every day in September, Iranian media outlets have published reports of explosions “heard from the sea,” an ominous sign that military activity is taking place in the Strait of Hormuz. But the reports left mysterious just who was carrying out the attacks. It turns out it was Iran itself.
一名西方安全官员在匿名条件下向《纽约时报》分享的机密数据显示，伊朗每周都在很大程度上避开公众视线，向海峡内的商船发射数十架无人机和导弹，尽管其往往未能击中目标。
Confidential data shared with The New York Times by a Western security official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters shows that Iran has been launching dozens of drones and missiles at commercial ships in the strait each week, largely out of the public eye, though it has often failed to strike its targets.
周三，伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队首次似乎证实，正是其导致了从伊朗南部海岸听到的近乎每日的爆炸声，称其每24小时都在打击霍尔木兹海峡内的目标。
And on Wednesday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps for the first time appeared to confirm it was behind the near-daily sounds of explosions heard from Iran’s southern coast, saying it was striking targets in the Strait of Hormuz every 24 hours.
革命卫队发言人在接受国家新闻采访时说：“我们阻止他们通过，但一段时间以来，美国并未做出回应。”
“We prevent them from passing, but for some time now, America has not responded,” a spokesman for the Revolutionary Guards said in a state news interview.
这种侵略行为表明，尽管中东石油出口近几周有所回升，但由于伊朗正努力维持对其最大杠杆来源之一的控制，通过该水道的航运风险依然存在。
The aggression shows that even as oil exports from the Middle East have rebounded in recent weeks, shipping through the waterway remains risky, as Iran jostles to keep control of one of its biggest sources of leverage.