United States military forces boarded an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman. This action escalates pressure on Iran. The vessel was searched and redirected. It is the fifth commercial ship intercepted since Washington imposed a blockade on Iranian shipping.

A third fully-loaded crude tanker has left the Iranian port of Chabahar and crossed the US blockade line heading toward Asia, just days before the planned signing of a ceasefire that will give Tehran the right to sell oil immediately.

May 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. military ‌boarded Iranian-flagged commercial ‌oil tanker M/T Celestial Sea in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday after ‌suspecting ⁠it had violated a U.S. ⁠blockade, U.S. Central Command said in a statement.

The U.S. and Iran have exchanged missile and drone strikes, testing the prospect of a fragile ceasefire developing into a longer peace. The exchanges followed the U.S. striking an empty oil tanker it said was attempting to breach a U.S. imposed blockade of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — US military says it fires missile to halt another oil tanker trying to reach an Iranian port in violation of blockade. Copyright 2026 The ...

WASHINGTON(AP) — The U.S. military said Wednesday that it boarded an Iranian-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman that was suspected of trying to violate the American blockade, the latest action by the Trump administration to try to push Tehran to ...

The tanker movements come just days before a U.S.-Iran peace deal is set to be unveiled at a ceremony in Switzerland.

The tanker disabled by the American military while trying to run the U.S. blockade of Iran had dismissed nearly 60 verbal warnings as well as other shows of force before being fired upon