US-sanctioned supertankers enter Gulf despite blockade

This is why it's frustrating when you have a visa too. The news makes it sound like all people with visas are being shipped away every single day. It gets tiring weeding through the news stories to find out if I should actually be concerned or if it's more click bait bullshit.

It's not click bait, some people this week are just having a stroke and seeing sanctioned **ship** in a headline, but rewriting that in their mind to sanctioned **cargo** or something. A sanctioned ship is a vessel that's allegedly violated some sanctions in the past and got itself on a wanted list. The US has been aggressively chasing down and seizing sanctioned ships all year. From the Caribbean to the North Sea this has happened multiple times and been major international news. It almost turned into a bigger conflict when the US pursued a Russian ship named "Marinera" across the ocean for two weeks and the Russians dispatched their own warships and submarine to try to stop them. It was on the sanctioned ships list for allegedly smuggling weapons to Hezbollah two years earlier. In the end the US was able to catch up and seize the ship before the Russians could reach the region so luckily the situation didn't escalate. Each of these recent news stories about sanctioned **ships** making it through the strait of Hormuz have been reported by Reuters because it's legitimately interesting and newsworthy if sanctioned ships, which have been aggressively pursued and seized prior to this, are seemingly allowed to pass through an area that should be full of US Navy forces. In at least one case a sanctioned ship called the "Rich Starry" was initially allowed to sail out through the strait of Hormuz, Reuters reported on that interesting development, and then a day *after* it had left the strait it turned around out in the gulf of Oman and went back to the strait. (Which Reuters also reported) So it's a fluid situation and the US ships seem to be working further away from the strait than one might imagine. It's possible they'll intecept this ship later too.

Welcome to Hotel Lake Hormuzia.

Or Iran is just claiming credit for one of the ships headed to other countries in the Persian gulf, to draw attention away from their own threat-based blockade failing.

Not to Iran. They're not bothering with anyone going to any other country, just Iran.

The strait is not blockade by the USN. The gulf of Oman is.

It is despite whatever you think