The US military Central Command, or CENTCOM, said 127 commercial vessels have been redirected and six “non-compliant ships have been disabled” as part of the US blockade of Iranian ports.
CENTCOM added that it allowed 36 vessels supporting humanitarian aid efforts to pass.
Fragile negotiations between the US and Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz have stalled several times.
Tehran has been charging ships up to $2 million (€1.73 million) for safe passage through the strait, while the United States has imposed a naval embargo, turning back vessels carrying Iranian oil exports.
Separately, on Thursday, the AFP news agency, citing the maritime tracking firm Kpler, reported that four Iranian-flagged oil tankers passed through the strait.
The firm detected the passage on Monday of the Hilda I, the Amber, the Silvia 1 and the Happiness I.
According to Kpler, the vessels were carrying a total of 7 million barrels of oil loaded in mid-April on Kharg Island, dw.com reports.
