US Destroys Five Iranian Oil Carriers After Missile Attack Attempts

🛢️ GULF — Five tankers in one action; the tanker war just changed scale. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Prior strikes hit one or two vessels per exchange. Five in a single action signals Washington escalating the attrition doctrine deliberately. Tehran now faces accelerated export revenue loss — Kharg already pressured, now five more hulls gone. Iran's calculus shifts: absorb compounding losses or force a confrontation that risks nuclear site strikes.