Trump claims full control of Hormuz - Iran sets conditions for reopening the strait
US President Donald Trump said the US Navy has "100 percent" control over the Strait of Hormuz, while Iran insists Washington must meet its demands before reopening the critical waterway.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump claimed that the strait "is actually open now" and "the only one that has control of the Strait of Hormuz is the United States Navy." He described the US naval blockade against Iran as a "wall of steel," adding that the US military "only lets in the people that we want."
While acknowledging that the situation remains "a little complex" because Iran occasionally lays mines, Trump claimed that the US Navy "has covered the entire strait with mines."
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said that more than 20 US warships have been deployed to the Middle East to support military missions, including strict enforcement of the US blockade against Iran. Since that day, the US military has forced 55 merchant ships to change course, disabled two merchant ships and boarded and inspected two others, CENTCOM said.
Meanwhile, data from ship-tracking platform Kpler shows that traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remained “suppressed” over the past week and “weakened further” over the weekend. Confirmed crossings through the waterway fell from 15 on Friday to 11 on Saturday and just six on Sunday, according to Kpler.
Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said the Strait of Hormuz will not be reopened until the United States "corrects its behavior," Iranian media reported on Saturday.
Zolghadr noted that the reopening of the strait depends on the United States fulfilling a number of conditions: it must permanently end the war against Iran and its armed allies in the region; it must stop threatening Iran; it must lift the naval blockade of Iranian ports; it must compensate Iran for war damages, and it must lift sanctions and "unconditionally" release frozen or seized assets.
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