2 ships cross Strait of Hormuz
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Iran's Fars News Agency says a supertanker sailed through international waters and the Strait of Hormuz with its tracking system switched on, "without any concealment."
US Navy destroyers began clearing a “new passage” through the Strait of Hormuz Saturday –marking the first time American ships crossed the channel since the start of the war. The USS Frank E. Peterson and USS Michael Murphy set off on the mission to establish an open route so that minesweepers could later clear sea mines laid by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps,
President Donald Trump said the U.S. military would remain around Iran until a real agreement is reached and fully complied with.
The destroyers were beginning mine-clearing operations in the vital waterway, U.S. Central Command said Saturday.