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.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that the US controls the strategic waterway, which is important for the flow of energy and other commodities through the Middle East, despite the Islamic Republic's fierce rejection of the assertion.
In fact, Iran intends to impose a toll system in response to the US war launched by Trump on February 28.
Yet again, Trump wrote, "The U.S.A. has total control over the Strait of Hormuz. I think we will keep it! Our naval blockade is being called, by everyone, "a wall of steel", and there is nothing Iran can do 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!"
