According to Bradley Cooper, the admiral and commander of the U.S. Central Command staff (CENTCOM), during his flight over the Strait of Hormuz while visiting more than 50,000 U.S. military personnel in the Middle East, he did not see the forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, because, as he claimed, Iran’s navy is “completely at sea.” Cooper, in a video message, alleged that earlier this year U.S. forces sank Iran’s navy and cleared the main shipping lanes through the strait of mines, and since the summer have helped partners in Gulf countries export more than 1.5 billion barrels of crude oil. He said that with the “iron blockade of Iran’s ports,” they have prevented Iran from exporting even a single drop of oil.