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Iran sends loaded oil tankers past US blockade line Three Iranian tankers loaded with crude oil have passed the US blockade line in the Gulf of Oman, ship-tracking data shows. Two were broadcasting their
US has removed its blockade of Iranian ports and, according to Iranian media, at least three Iranian oil tankers and other ships carrying goods for Iran have crossed
US blockade zone before talks to end war Several tankers carrying Iranian oil have crossed the United States blockade line in the Strait of Hormuz, according to a tracking website, two days before Washington
oil and gas tankers](/economy/2026/4/18/as-oil-prices-plunge-below-91-after-weeks-a-new-hormuz-crisis-emerges) had crossed the strait, but at least as many ships appeared to have turned back, having begun to exit the Gulf, the AFP news agency reported. The toing and froing
blockade and reached the Asia Pacific while carrying more than 1.9 million barrels of crude oil valued at nearly $220m. ## Diplomacy - The US has approved $8.6bn in major arms deals and military support
crossing the strait. Iran’s military said it had retaliated against the US Navy vessels after US forces targeted an oil tanker in its territorial waters. Tehran also accused Washington of violating their ceasefire
oil tankers off its coast. But is this the case? Here’s what we know about US strikes on Iranian ships: ## What happened to the Touska? The US military enforced its naval blockade on Iranian
tankers that attempted to violate the American blockade of Iran’s ports, the US military said. Despite the clashes diplomatic efforts continue, with the mediators [Pakistan](https://www.theguardian.com/world/pakistan) passing to Iran a brief memorandum
US naval blockade in Hormuz On March 11, the Thai cargo ship Mayuree Naree was struck by two projectiles while crossing the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important waterways located between
oil and gas shortages caused by the double closure of the strait of Hormuz by Iran and the US. Trump had imposed a blockade on Iranian ports in response to Iran’s decision to charge
blockade on Iranian ports has failed to reopen it. Before the war began, between 120 and 140 ships travelled through the strait each day, about half of them oil tankers carrying some 20 million barrels
blockade on one side and the Iranian authorities on the other, only a few ships have been able to cross the Strait of Hormuz. Against that backdrop, has the US indeed been able
cross the strait on Friday before turning back. Trump said a US blockade of ships sailing to Iranian ports would remain until “our transaction with [Iran](https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran) is 100% complete”. Iran parliamentary speaker
oil prices soaring well above $100 per barrel from a pre-war price of about $65. On April 8, after Iran and the US agreed on a ceasefire, Tehran agreed to reopen the strait
blockades of the critical shipping waterway that have choked global energy markets. The standoff over the narrow waterway – through which about 20% of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas passed through during peacetime
Iran’s near-total closure of the strait of Hormuz to ships using other Gulf ports soon after the US-Israeli attack began on 28 February. US Central Command reported that over a 24-hour
blockades, taking the region back to the brink of full-scale war. The fresh volleys of missiles and drones came after **Donald Trump** launched a new effort to get stranded tankers and other ships through
tankers are stationary, the data suggests. Satellite imagery shows that many are gathered near major oil export terminals in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and the UAE. The total number of vessels in the area is likely
blockading Iran's ports after Tehran effectively closed the busy Strait of Hormuz through which some 20% of the world's oil and gas supplies are transported. Opesh Kumar Sharma of India's ministry
blockaded following the US and Israeli attacks on the country on February 28. The closure of the vital maritime corridor – through which roughly one-fifth of the world’s energy supplies flow – has sent oil