It’s unclear how the ‘millions of barrels’ Trump spoke of would have been removed without Tehran’s knowledge

Donald Trump brought up the oil right after a report showed inflation surging.

Trump's comments come after Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Tuesday that oil exports through Hormuz are "rising very meaningfully" without elaborating further.

President Trump said the U.S. is seizing "millions" of barrels of Iranian oil in the dead of night, and said inflation will come down when the war ends.

Donald Trump aseguró que Estados Unidos ha movido millones de barriles de petróleo a través del estrecho de Ormuz sin conocimiento de Irán, lo que, según dijo, ayudó a contener el…

It’s unclear how the ‘millions of barrels’ Trump spoke of would have been removed without Tehran’s knowledge

The president clarified comments he made on Wednesday about hundreds of millions of barrels of oil he claimed to have secretly taken from Iran.

El presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, aseguró ha logrado sacar en "secreto" unos 100 millones de barriles de crudo del estrecho de Ormuz.

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Oh, and also we've been secretly taking "millions of barrels of oil" from Iran, Trump said.

President Donald Trump made headlines after claiming the United States has been secretly moving massive amounts of oil through the Strait of Hormuz without Iran knowing.

Trump said that the US executed a secret mission through which over 200 commercial ships travelled through the Strait of Hormuz. | World News

Trump said in a social media post that the U.S. military helped get 100 million barrels of oil through the strait without Iran's knowledge.

The president referred to this as a “secret mission” that he says was conducted last month.

El presidente estadounidense dijo que Washington controla la vía navegable clave, ya fuera de la influencia iraní.También prometió volver a atacar "con dureza" a la República…

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States had successfully helped move more than 100 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz as part of a…

Representative Jim Himes called a lot of details in Donald Trump’s claims “flat out untrue.”

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed that the United States had secretly facilitated the movement of millions of barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz without…

We’ve been taking out millions of barrels of oil: Trump claims US has been sneaking oil without Iran's knowledge

The maths doesn't appear to hold up, even though the US has likely managed to get some oil out of the strait.

Trump threatened to seize Iran’s Kharg Island oil hub and take total control of its energy markets, comparing the move to U.S. operations in Venezuela.