United States President, Donald Trump has said that Iran cannot blackmail the US with its flip-flopping on the fate of the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump said this on Saturday at a White House event following the closure of the strategic waterway a few hours after it opened.
“We’re talking to them. They wanted to close up the strait again, you know, as they’ve been doing for years, and they can’t blackmail us,” Trump said.
According to the president, there would be some information about Iran later in the day.
DAILY POST reports that Iran’s military on Saturday declared the Strait, through which about one-fifth of the world’s crude and liquefied natural gas normally passes closed, a day after saying it was open.
The Islamic Republic stated that it was responding to a continued US blockade of Iranian ports.
Iran described it as a violation of their ceasefire, while Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said Iran’s navy was ready to inflict new bitter defeats on its enemies.
