Iranian state media has reported that a foreign cargo ship using a “US-suggested route has run aground” in the Strait of Hormuz, Al Jazeera reports.

TankerTrackers.com, a maritime traffic monitor, says the ship had “actually been stuck in this same spot since March”.

It identified the vessel as Arista, and said while the ship is Comoros-flagged, it is part of an operation managed by Iranian oil magnate Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani, the son of the late senior Iranian security official Ali Shamkhani.