blockade

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Any such operation, if ordered, would risk significant casualties, considering that Iran relies on drones, missiles and small speedboats to strike vessels that attempt to defy its blockade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

“A U.S. blockade on oil shipments to Cuba has plunged the island into its worst energy crisis in modern history,” my colleague Kate Linthicum reported from Havana.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

A Russian oil tanker was set to deliver the first crude shipment to Cuba since January on Tuesday after Washington gave the crisis-hit island a reprieve from an effective fuel blockade.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

Washington slightly eased the blockade last month to allow oil sales to Cuba's small private sector.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

In order to break through Octavian’s blockade, Mark Antony had outfitted his 230 ships with 20,000 infantry and 2,000 archers and slingers.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby