Vance touts ‘record-breaking’ oil flow in Strait of Hormuz as Iran announces closure

Vice President Vance said Saturday there was no evidence that Iran had blocked off the Strait of Hormuz even as the Middle East country’s top joint military command announced that it would shutter the key waterway.

In an interview with “Fox & Friends Weekend” early Saturday, Vance responded to reports saying Iran’s naval forces were blocking ship traffic in the strait, saying the passage was still open. 

He pointed to what he described as a record-breaking amount of oil moving through the critical trading corridor over the last 24 hours, suggesting that the strait was not closed.

“One of the things the president has set us out to do as a high priority is to open the Strait. That’s now happened,” Vance said in the interview. 

“We actually got 16 million barrels of oil out of the Strait of Hormuz yesterday. That is a record going back to even before the conflict started,” he added. “So you’re seeing those ships........

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