Ahmedabad Times

On April 20, US Central Command, shared a video on X informing the identical.

The submit learn, “For the reason that graduation of the blockade in opposition to ships getting into or exiting Iranian ports and coastal areas, U.S. forces have directed 27 vessels to show round or return to an Iranian port.”

For the reason that graduation of the blockade in opposition to ships getting into or exiting Iranian ports and coastal areas, U.S. forces have directed 27 vessels to show round or return to an Iranian port. pic.twitter.com/G8dl96wN4H

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) April 20, 2026

Touska was the primary ship to evade blockade, says US

When the Iranian cargo ship, Touska was seized, it was the primary time {that a} vessel was reported to have tried to evade the US-imposed blockade on any ship getting into or exiting Iranian ports because it took impact final week, experiences the New York Occasions.

Talking on the US blockade and the motion of ships within the Strait of Hormuz, a US army official advised the New York Occasions {that a} workforce of Marines was looking and scanning numerous containers aboard the Touska, an Iranian cargo ship that the US Navy had disabled and seized within the Gulf of Oman on Sunday after it tried to evade the blockade.

The destiny of the seized Iranian vessel shouldn’t be identified but. In keeping with a report by the New York Occasions, American officers will quickly decide what to do with the Iranian vessel as soon as the search is full. The US is contemplating towing the ship to Oman as one possibility or letting the Touska steam to any Iranian port. Talking on the crew, the official knowledgeable them that they’d be moved again to Iran quickly.

“The message is out that the majority ships should not desirous to go on the market,” Kevin Donegan, a retired vice admiral and former prime Navy commander within the Center East, mentioned in an interview on Monday, says the NYT.

The Touska was one in all “a number of vessels of curiosity” that US intelligence analysts have been monitoring in current days, each inside and outdoors the blockade boundary, the US army official mentioned, states the NYT.