politics
US has moved 100M barrels of oil through Strait of Hormuz: Trump
President Donald Trump clarified comments he made on Wednesday about hundreds of millions of barrels of oil he claimed to have secretly taken from Iran.
TL;DR
- President Trump initially stated the U.S. had secretly taken millions of barrels of oil from Iran.
- He later clarified that the U.S. military executed a secret mission to support commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz.
- This effort resulted in over 100 million barrels of oil making its way to the open market.
- Trump asserted that the U.S. controls the Strait of Hormuz, not Iran.
- He also suggested that the U.S. would continue striking Iran due to derailed ceasefire negotiations.