US President Donald Trump suggested this Saturday (14) the formation of an international coalition with “many countries” to challenge Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, days after the statement by the new Iranian supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, reaffirming the closure of the strategic route.
“We hope that China, France, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and others who are affected by this artificial restriction will send ships to the region so that the Strait of Hormuz will no longer be threatened by a completely decapitated nation,” Trump wrote in Truth Social.
Trump praised the performance of American troops, saying that “they have already destroyed 100% of Iran’s military capacity”, but warned about the need for international help, as according to him, for Iran, “it is easy to send one or two drones, launch a mine or fire a short-range missile at some point in this strait, no matter how defeated they are”.
“Meanwhile, the US will continually bomb the coast and continually sink Iranian ships. One way or another, we will soon get the Strait of Hormuz OPEN, SAFE and FREE,” he wrote.
Trump’s statement comes one day after announcing one of the “most powerful” bombings in the history of the Middle East against military targets on the island of Kharg, the center of the Islamic regime’s oil industry and where 90% of the oil that the country exports to the world is stored.
In response, Iranian forces threatened this Saturday to destroy “all US-related oil, economic and energy infrastructure” in the Middle East.
These movements have raised tension at the strategic Hormuz crossing, after last Thursday, in his first public message, the new Iranian supreme leader stated that the strait would remain closed as a lever of pressure while American and Israeli attacks continued.
On the other hand, the Tehran regime is selectively allowing some ships to pass through the strategic route. The agency Reuters reported that two Indian-flagged liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) ships were given permission to sail through the Strait and Turkey’s Transport and Infrastructure Minister separately said that Iran allowed a Turkish-owned ship to pass through the passage.
