quote: The effort goes beyond escorting outbound tankers with oil on board. The U.S. military is helping empty tankers enter the Gulf from the Arabian Sea through the strait, pick up oil from UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait, and then exit. "We have been controlling the southern lane of the Strait of Hormuz for two months now. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps can be a nuisance, but they don't control the strait. We do," one of the U.S. officials, who has direct knowledge of the matter, said. | U.S. conducting stealth operation to transport oil through Hormuz #oott https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/hormuz-iran-oil-gulf-trump

quote: The effort goes beyond escorting outbound tankers with oil on board. The U.S. military is helping empty tankers enter the Gulf from the Arabian Sea through the strait, pick up oil from UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait, and then exit. "We have been controlling the southern lane of the Strait of Hormuz for two months now. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps can be a nuisance, but they don't control the strait. We do," one of the U.S. officials, who has direct knowledge of the matter, said. | U.S. conducting stealth operation to transport oil through Hormuz #oott https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/hormuz-iran-oil-gulf-trump

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