Iranian navy oil tanker transits to Gulf of Oman, Fars reports

WASHINGTON, United States — An Iranian navy oil tanker crossed a maritime line described as a U.S. blockade and reached international waters in the direction of the Gulf of Oman, Fars news agency reported. The vessel moved more than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a second round of blockade measures against Iran. Fars said the vessel was not carrying an oil shipment and could be used as a moving floating storage unit. The agency cited experts who argued that a sustained countermeasure would require targeting U.S.-linked regional oil infrastructure. The report framed the transiting of the blockade line as a violation of understandings between Washington and Tehran. Iranian and U.S. officials had not publicly commented at the time of the report, and no further details on the tanker's current position or next port of call were immediately available.