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Report: Shipping data contradict US claims of blockade success
US Centcom commander Brad Cooper said that “US forces have completely halted economic trade going in & out of Iran by sea.”
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But shipping data show that 14 ships on the US sanctions lists crossed the strait, 7 from Iranian ports.
In addition, TankerTrackers said Iran shipped 9m barrels of crude oil since the start of the blockade.
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Iran war updates: Lebanon truce begins as US blockades Iran for deal
These were the updates on the US-Israel war on Iran and Israel’s attacks on Lebanon for Thursday, April 16, 2026.Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
I don't think the UK media have made nearly enough noise about the US Navy sinking an *unarmed* Iranian warship and then, in clear violation of the Geneva Conventions, leaving them to drown.
This is a heinous war crime which the media would be rightly up in arms about if any country that wasn't nominally an "ally" had done it.