NEW YORK, July 17. /TASS/. The US military has boarded a tanker in the Gulf of Oman to inspect it, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said.

"US Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct a verification boarding aboard M/T Wen Yao in the Gulf of Oman, July 16," CENTCOM said in a statement on the X social network.

Since the US resumed its maritime blockade on the Islamic Republic, US forces "have redirected 3 commercial vessels trying to run the blockade, disabled 1 that didn’t comply, and boarded 1," the statement says.