U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States will attack Iran if no peace deal is secured and that the U.S. military secretly escorted ships carrying more than 100
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States will attack Iran if no peace deal is secured and that the U.S. military secretly escorted ships carrying more than 100 million barrels of oil out of the Strait of Hormuz.
"We're going to be attacking them, attacking them very hard," Trump told reporters at the White House. He said the U.S. would strike Iran on Wednesday, in response to Iran's downing of an Apache helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump said later on Truth Social that he had directed last month the U.S. military to execute a secret mission to support oil tankers and other commercial ships through the strait, a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman, through which 20% of the world's oil and gas flowed before the war began on February 28.
The world consumes about 100 million barrels of oil in one day. Trump suggested that global oil prices had fallen as a result of the secret mission. "That's why it's at $85-$90 a barrel, instead of $250," Trump told reporters, earlier at the White House. Iran, a major OPEC oil producer, "just figured it out" that the oil had been taken through the
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