{"id":351599,"date":"2026-06-11T18:01:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/factcheck-trumps-claim-us-is-taking-out-millions-of-barrels-of-oil-out-of-strait-of-hormuz\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T18:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:01:52","slug":"factcheck-trumps-claim-us-is-taking-out-millions-of-barrels-of-oil-out-of-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/factcheck-trumps-claim-us-is-taking-out-millions-of-barrels-of-oil-out-of-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Factcheck: Trump&#8217;s claim US is taking out millions of barrels of oil out of Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/lHUmu-x1AAQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Factcheck: Trump's claim US is taking out millions of barrels of oil out of Strait of Hormuz\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lHUmu-x1AAQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe took out the other night 22 ships late at night, with no lights because they don\u2019t have any radar, because we blasted the crap out of it,\u201d said Donald Trump, making a claim \u2013 which has not been independently verified by the Guardian  \u2013 that the US has secretly taken barrels of oil out of the strait of Hormuz.<br \/>\nSubscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>The new US assault across a range of Iranian cities came as efforts to negotiate an end to the war again appeared stuck, with Iran insisting it would maintain its chokehold on the strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of media briefings this week, US officials sought to play down the significance of the attacks while claiming the ceasefire remained in place and wider negotiations with Iran had not been affected.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from the White House on Wednesday, the US president said that he was not concerned about inflation because of recent developments in the conflict. <\/p>\n<p>In this video, Guardian journalist Paul Owen breaks down what we know about whether the US has been taking out \u201cmillions of barrels of oil\u201d without Iran\u2019s knowledge. <\/p>\n<p>The US has launched a wave of strikes across southern Iran for the second consecutive day. <\/p>\n<p>#trump #iran #straitofhormuz #factcheck #donaldtrump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe took out the other night 22 ships late at night, with no lights because they don\u2019t have any radar, because we blasted the crap out of it,\u201d said Donald Trump, making a claim \u2013 which has not been independently verified by the Guardian \u2013 that the US has secretly taken barrels of oil out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":351600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128995],"tags":[130282,130506,128830],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-351599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardian-news","tag-we","tag-other","tag-took"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Factcheck: Trump&#039;s claim US is taking out millions of barrels of oil out of Strait of Hormuz | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Factcheck: Trump&#039;s claim US is taking out millions of barrels of oil out of Strait of Hormuz for free, here on News ISC. 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