'Only single-digit number of ships' passing Hormuz, Iran tells CGTN

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Iran's deputy nuclear chief Behrouz Kamalvandi has disputed US claims that the number of oil-carrying vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz is growing, telling CGTN that the traffic remains in the single digits.

"The number of ships is not the number that they [the US] are claiming," Kamalvandi said on Tuesday during the International Atomic Energy Agency's General Conference in Vienna.

"We have only a single-digit number of ships which are in traffic going and coming into the Strait of Hormuz," he said.

Before the US-Iran conflict, shipments amounted to over 100 vessels per day. This figure has since fallen to well below 14 ships per day, according to preliminary ship tracking data cited by Reuters.