60 targets struck, 18M barrels of oil protected: The US military’s record day in the Strait of Hormuz
The US military escorted 40 commercial vessels carrying 18 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, marking a wartime high as Iran and the US exchanged a new round of strikes on Tuesday, two US officials familiar with the operations told CNN.
The US used a range of air, sea and space assets to not only continue hitting Iran’s capability to attack commercial vessels in the strait but simultaneously fended off waves of drone attacks as it conducted the risky escort operations for the ships carrying millions of barrels of oil, the officials said.
It comes as the US has focused its strategy in the war to prioritize striking targets around the strait, conducting escort operations for commercial vessels through the key waterway and maintaining its naval blockade on Iranian ports as part of a “full court press” by the Trump administration to ramp up economic pressure on the regime’s leadership, according to the officials.
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