Iranian oil tankers begin exiting US blockade zone — tracking site

By AFP 17 June 2026, 5:49 am

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Iranian oil tankers have exited the zone in the Gulf blockaded by the US Navy, the TankerTrackers website says, calling it the country’s “first crude oil exports in two months.”

“At least two National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) VLCC supertankers named DIONA (9569695) and HERO2 (9362073) have exited the US Navy blockade perimeter carrying a combined total of 3.8 million barrels of Iranian crude oil between them,” TankerTrackers says in a post on X, citing digital tracking data corroborated by satellite imagery.

The site — which monitors oil shipments and storage — later adds that a third NITC tanker had “exited the blockade line with 1 million barrels of Iranian crude oil.”