US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that America has control over the Strait of Hormuz and that he will “keep it”. In a post on Truth Social, he praised the success of the US naval blockade and claimed that it is being touted as a “wall of steel” and that Iran cannot do anything about it.
The Republican leader asserted that Iran has no Navy and Air Force and that their soldiers are unpaid.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, he said, is “decimated and fleeing”. Trump ended his post by saying that Iran is no longer the “bully” of the Middle East and said, “Praise be to Allah! Meanwhile, Iran has said that it would not allow the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz until the US naval blockade is lifted, its assets are unfrozen, the sanctions are called off and the US compensates it for wartime damage. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday that their strategy was to maintain their blockade “until the enemy accepts all our conditions… the strait is now actually a theatre of war for us and not just a waterway”. “We are low-keying it,” Trump said of his approach in an interview. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had said earlier that Tehran was only “exchanging messages” with the US through intermediaries.
