CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper said in a video posted on X that US forces had cleared sea mines laid by the IRGC from the strait's internationally recognised transit routes and that 'international shipping lanes are open'; he gave no count of mines removed. Trump had said on 25 August that the Navy told him all mines in the strait's international waters were removed or detonated. Allies privately told Bloomberg the strait was likely still mined, and Iran's deputy foreign minister said only Iran knew where its mines were. The post went up at about 8:20 pm US Eastern time on 27 August.
Computed, not asserted — every number here is derived from public data: official EIA Brent closes via FRED, IMF PortWatch transit counts, Polymarket and Kalshi odds, and source-linked curated events. Method and caveats · Atom feed · llms.txt