Middle East Tensions Escalate: US and Iran Exchange Oil Tanker Strikes, Merchant Ships Attacked in the Strait of Hormuz

2026-09-06 08:45 Source： flash.jin10.com Event types： Online/Update

Conflicts continued across multiple regions in the Middle East on September 6, with the US military and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sinking each other's oil tankers, and multiple merchant vessels attacked in the Strait of Hormuz. Iraq announced an increase in its oil export capacity to over 3 million barrels per day.