As the US-Iran conflict drags on for more than six months, Middle East tensions remain high.
Amid this, US President Donald Trump has said that Tehran is ready to open the strategic waterway, the Strait of Hormuz, asserting “they have no money coming in.”
Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported that the US President expects to resume the US bombing campaign against Iran after US midterm elections. Because they’re dying. Because they get their money from the Hormuz Strait, because they have no money coming in,. Because they wanted to close the strait, and I said, ‘That’s fine, they don’t have any money now,.
You know why? You know why they’re dying? He added: “So they outsmarted themselves. And then I came along, and we put up the greatest blockade ever in military history. It’s a wall of steel, and we put it up, and guess what? We’re going to close it on you, but everybody else is able to use it’.
They said, ‘Let’s close it and cause a problem for the world. “They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately because they’re losing so badly,” he said. Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Trump said, “And what they want to do is immediately open the Hormuz Strait.
Trump earlier said he rejected a deal from Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to Bloomberg . “They made a proposal, but I rejected it,” Trump said as he departed the White House. Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araqchi told reporters at the United Nations on Friday that the proposed deal would lead to a seven-day countdown to reopening the Strait of Hormuz, according to the report.
