Desk. Iran said on Saturday that Trump should stop dreaming about Hormuz. Strait of Hormuz “belonged to Iran, belongs to Iran and will always belong to Iran”. This statement of Iran comes after President Donald Trump's claim in which he said that America will “soon declare the Strait of Hormuz as part of American territory.” After this, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi stressed that Hormuz will be closed and opened only on the orders of Iran.
“Trump has said that after Iran’s defeat, he will soon declare Hormuz as US territory,” he said in a post on
He further said, “Accept once and for all the truth that till now you have suffered a strategic and heavy defeat… Until you accept the truth of defeat and give up your imaginary misconceptions, Iran will continue the blockade.”
In fact, during a political rally held at a police academy in New York, Trump said laughingly, “After we have completely defeated Iran, which is losing badly, I will soon declare Hormuz as the territory of the United States, and that's true. Paying a little more for gasoline in your car is worth making sure that “a very bad country” does not have nuclear weapons. However, an unnamed White House official later clarified that Trump was joking.
Donald Trump claimed in a Truth Social post on Wednesday that the US “has complete control over the Strait of Hormuz. I think we will keep it under our control.” He further said, “Everyone is calling our naval blockade ‘A WALL OF STEEL’ and Iran cannot do anything about it.”
“The US's false claims that ships are passing normally through the Strait of Hormuz… are nothing but lies and fabrications. Hormuz remains under the full management and control of the Islamic Republic of Iran, as before,” Ibrahim Zolfgari, a spokesman for Iran's Central Military Command, Khatam-al-Anbia, said in a video shown on state TV. And without surveillance, it was neither possible nor would it be possible for any commercial ship or tanker to pass through this strait safely.”
Iran's senior diplomat Abbas Aragchi also said that America has been making wrong assumptions about this sea route. He said on