Iran should have listened when President Donald Trump gave them multiple warnings. They are now deep in the "find out" stage as they continue to transgress.
Another ship tried to run the U.S. blockade, but it did not fare well when U.S. Marines came knocking.
U.S. Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct a verification boarding aboard M/T Wen Yao in the Gulf of Oman, July 16.
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) July 16, 2026
As of today, American forces have redirected 3 commercial vessels trying to run the blockade, disabled 1 that didn’t comply, and boarded 1 to… pic.twitter.com/vbjArHuLaO
U.S. Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct a verification boarding aboard M/T Wen Yao in the Gulf of Oman, July 16.
As of today, American forces have redirected 3 commercial vessels trying to run the blockade, disabled 1 that didn’t comply, and boarded 1 to ensure full compliance with the ongoing U.S. naval blockade against Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz and the surrounding waters remain free and open, except for vessels attempting to violate America’s steel wall blockade.
Here's more of the boarding:
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) July 16, 2026
As CENTCOM said, they fired on and disabled another oil tanker earlier this week that was trying to run the blockade.
U.S. forces also began another wave of strikes starting around 2 PM ET for the sixth consecutive night, and as President Donald Trump promised, they hit some bridges - and a slew of other critical facilities for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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U.S. forces struck a key bridge connecting the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas to inland regions, causing a section of the span to collapse into the Shur River. pic.twitter.com/oqJTTvSnIo
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 16, 2026
🚨 JUST IN: In a POWER MOVE from President Trump and SecWar Hegseth, the US military has just bombed BRIDGES and ROADS around Iran's Bandar Abbas — which "cuts the IRGC off from resupply and isolates them"
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 16, 2026
"Bandar Abbas is key to controlling the Strait of Hormuz. MANY strikes… pic.twitter.com/P4xrbKMDgz
From the Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. struck multiple bridges in Iran on Thursday in an effort to cut off supply routes to a port city and naval base in the Strait of Hormuz that Iran uses to attack ships and project power, according to a senior U.S. official.
Several attacks on bridges were reported in and around the port city of Bandar Abbas overnight Thursday, and highways connecting Bandar Abbas to nearby provinces were declared closed, according to Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB.
The U.S. appears to be trying to cut off access to the coastal region next to the Strait, which would make it harder to resupply the area to attack shipping and severely impede their ability to defend the area.
Bandar Abbas is home to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval base and is critical to Iran’s ability to project power in the waterway and throughout the Persian Gulf. The U.S. has pounded it with strikes in recent days, and it attacked an Iranian submarine and ship facility there with sea drones earlier this week.
They should have taken Trump seriously.
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