Well, 55 ships two days ago, as you said, 67 went through yesterday on an oil and oil products volumes about equal to where we were before the war. But there's three channels through the straits. There's the middle normal navigational channel that unfortunately The Iranians have mined [the middle normal navigational channel through the straits], so that needs to be demined. Then there's a separate route up north by the Iranian islands that they've tried to force ships through. And then there's a southern route that the United States military has been escorting ships through for several weeks. (01:22–01:26)
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Asserts that the Iranians have mined the middle navigational channel through the Strait of Hormuz.
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