Trump Fired On Iran To Own Hormuz - And Lost The Strait On Live Tracking

America said it's Hormuz blockade held, Iran sailed tankers through it on live tracking, leaving Trump the only one still lying. Right, so the United States fired on an Iranian-flagged tanker called the HASNA in the Gulf of Oman. CENTCOM, that's the US military's Central Command - the bit of the Pentagon that runs the Middle East - issued a press release saying an F/A-18 launched from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln had used a 20mm cannon to disable the tanker's rudder. CENTCOM said the HASNA was "no longer transiting to Iran." That was the line. That was the message. That was what America wanted you to think had happened. And then the data showed up. A maritime tracking outfit called TankerTrackers - they're an open-source group that watches AIS signals, the automatic identification beacons that ships are supposed to broadcast - said three empty National Iranian Tanker Company vessels had crossed the US Navy's blockade line, slipping through Pakistan's Exclusive Economic Zone. Two of them were then confirmed on satellite. The third, the HASNA itself, that same tanker America had supposedly stopped, then appeared on AIS off Shinas, Oman, about 470 kilometres west of the blockade line.