Did US sneak 100 million barrels of oil out of Hormuz, as Trump claims?
Key takeaways
- The maths doesn’t appear to hold up, even though the US has likely managed to get some oil out of the strait during the blockade.
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- That is why, Trump claimed, oil prices have hovered around $90 a barrel in recent days, instead of staying above $100 a barrel as was the case in the early weeks of the US-Israel war on Iran.
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The maths doesn’t appear to hold up, even though the US has likely managed to get some oil out of the strait during the blockade.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo. A drone view of vessels anchored in the Strait of Hormuz as seen from Musandam, Oman, June 8, 2026 [Reuters file photo]By Yashraj Sharma Published On 11 Jun 202611 Jun 2026Live on television, President Donald Trump, sitting in the Oval Office, told reporters on Wednesday that the United States has been sneaking millions of barrels of oil out of the Strait of Hormuz despite tensions defying Iran’s restrictions on transit through the waterway.
That is why, Trump claimed, oil prices have hovered around $90 a barrel in recent days, instead of staying above $100 a barrel as was the case in the early weeks of the US-Israel war on Iran.