President Donald Trump said the U.S. conducted a secret mission in the Strait of Hormuz whose impact reaches consumers' wallets, according to the president. The disclosure builds on earlier claims that a covert U.S. operation extracted millions of barrels of Iranian oil and secured passage for commercial tankers without Iranian interference.
President Donald Trump said on Monday that a secret U.S. military operation in the Strait of Hormuz has an impact that reaches every consumer's wallet, according to Israeli media reports. The statement adds a new claim — about consumer-level economic effects — to the president's evolving account of a covert action against Iranian oil assets, which he has been detailing since June 10.
On June 10, in a series of remarks beginning at 19:10 Jerusalem time, Trump first disclosed that the U.S. had extracted millions of barrels of Iranian oil from the Strait of Hormuz, seizing 22 tankers after disabling Iranian radar systems. In subsequent statements that same evening, he said the operation moved the tankers with their lights off, estimated each carried 1-2 million barrels, attributed the current ~$85 per barrel oil price to the mission, and by 19:10 claimed over 100 million barrels had been rescued. Throughout those statements, the sole source has been the president — no independent military or third-party verification has been cited.
The disclosure follows a period of escalating U.S.-Iran kinetic confrontation over the strait, which handles roughly 20% of global petroleum traffic. As The Zioneer reported on June 10, Trump has previously credited the operation with securing safe passage for over 200 commercial vessels and stabilizing oil prices. The wider context includes U.S. airstrikes on Iranian air-defense and radar sites in recent days, which the president has described as a response to the downing of an American helicopter.
Trump has not provided operational details — the timing, units involved, or the specific mechanism by which the mission affects global prices. Each claim remains a single-source statement from the president, unverified by outside sources.
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