TEHRAN — Iran’s Supreme Leader is calling a ship’s crew “heroes of fighting the Great Satan” for being one of the rare crews in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy to successfully avoid accidentally catching fire.

After seven IRGCN ships caught fire in the port of Bushehr on July 15, Iran quickly called the disaster “American sabotage.” The IRGCN subsequently awarded the crew the Corvette Bayandor the Order of Nasr for being hundreds of miles away at another port.

“In this deadly attack by the American aggressor,” IRGCN Commander Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said, “these sailors were the bravest of the brave.”