Trump admits sneaking ‘millions of barrels of oil’ from Hormuz and Iran just found out

President Donald Trump said ‘it was very hard’ not to reveal that the US had been taking oil through the Strait of Hormuz under Iran’s noses.

With Iran’s blockade of the crucial strait causing mayhem in global markets and with oil prices skyrocketing, the US President had to figure out something.

He told reporters: ‘I’m just announcing today for the first time, but we’ve been taking out millions of barrels, because they just figured it out, so now that they figured it out, I can tell you it was very hard for me.

‘I wanted to say it so badly I didn’t want to ruin it, but it was very hard. But millions of barrels of oil has come out.’

‘We’re going to hit them again hard today,’ Trump told reporters at the White House hours after US Central Command said it struck Iranian military sites.

Shortly after Trump spoke, the military said it had fired on an oil tanker trying to transport oil from Iran in violation of its blockage on Iranian ports.

It was the eighth merchant vessel disabled in the waters off Iran, U.S. Central Command announced in a social media post.

But Iran has proved resilient despite having faced weeks of heavy bombing.

It was betting that its ability to effectively close the Strait of Hormuz is a strong bargaining chip.

Still, both countries seem to be looking for a way to end the conflict — if they can manage to sell it as a win at home.

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears intent on pursuing much more difficult goals: the collapse of Iran’s theocratic government, the elimination of its nuclear program, and the destruction of the Iranian-allied Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon. Israel’s stance will make compromise much harder.