U.S. military says it aided passage of 660 million barrels of oil through Strait of Hormuz since May - CNBC
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- U.S. military says it aided the passage of 660 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz since May, per a CNBC headline in the source.
- Al Jazeera's headline reframes the corridor as a compliance question, asking whether ships passing Hormuz are more willing to defy Iran or the U.S.
Why it matters: The 660 million barrels figure is the U.S. military's own claimed scale of escorted oil flow since May, making it the central throughput statistic at a time when outlets are also describing the strait as caught between Iran's enforcement and Trump's economic squeeze on Iran's oil exports.
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