The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Saturday, by publishing a video in the Ax, that the U.S. military forces "disabled a merchant ship in the Sea of Oman after its civilian crew ignored repeated warnings and repeatedly tried to violate the naval blockade against Iran." According to the statement, after the crew was instructed to leave the target areas, "an American military aircraft fired precision munitions at the stern of the St. Kitts-flagged cargo ship MV Heady, which was about to leave the waters of the area after docking at an Iranian port." Emphasizing the determined implementation of the naval blockade against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Centcom added: "Executive operations since July have led to the diversion of 147 cooperating commercial ships and the disabling of five defiant ships," and the US military "previously destroyed 10 other Iranian commercial tankers that were part of the IRGC's multi-dollar network."