Trump says he will soon declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory
- Donald Trump has said threatened to declare the Strait of Hormuz as a US territory, escalating his rhetoric over control of the waterway amid the war with Iran.
- The US president said he would make the designation “pretty soon”, as Tehran and Washington remain at an impasse over the future of the strait nearly six months after it was closed when the US and Israel launched their war on 28 February.
- “After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz strait a territory of the United States,” Trump told the crowd of law enforcement officers.
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- Donald Trump has said threatened to declare the Strait of Hormuz as a US territory, escalating his rhetoric over control of the waterway amid the war with Iran.
- The US president said he would make the designation “pretty soon”, as Tehran and Washington remain at an impasse over the future of the strait nearly six months after it was closed when the US and Israel launched their war on 28 February.
- “After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz strait a territory of the United States,” Trump told the crowd of law enforcement officers.
Sources: The Independent