# US president Donald Trump says the military has since last month executed a secret operation to help oil tankers transit the Strait of Hormuz. Normally, about 20-percent of global petroleum supplies pass through the route, but traffic has remained severely limited since the US-Israeli attacks on Iran in February. Trump says the secret operation has resulted in the military helping commercial ships and over 100-million barrels of oil through the strait:
Trump says the US military has been sneaking oil past the Strait of Hormuz [SOUND]
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