“Overnight, U.S. forces conducted a maritime intercept and inspection aboard the sanctioned stateless vessel M/T Majestic X, which was transporting oil from Iran in the Indian Ocean,” the U.S. Department of Defense wrote on X.
This comes the day after Iran fired on three ships near the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them.
Over the weekend, the United States seized an Iranian container ship that President Donald Trump said was trying to bypass the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Earlier this week, U.S. forces boarded another Iran-linked oil tanker.
"The Department of Defense will continue to deny illegal actors and their vessels freedom of navigation," the Pentagon wrote on X on Thursday.
