US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States will likely take control of the Strait of Hormuz and should be compensated for managing the vital waterway.
“We’re going to keep the strait, and we’ll probably run it. We’ll become the guardian of the strait—perhaps even its guardian angel—and we should be compensated for that,” he said in a phone interview on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” program. “We’re taking over the strait. They have nothing.”
Trump added that the US should have addressed the Iranian threat “47 years ago,” noting that the two nations had agreed on everything during a recent 11‑hour meeting in Washington, before Iran demanded revisions to the agreement.
“Everything’s 11 hours with these guys,” Trump said. “You can’t settle in one sentence and one hour and one minute. It should be one minute. All was agreed to yesterday, but they left the room, called back, and asked for a couple of changes.”
“We’re not going to make changes,” he added. “They always want changes. They are professional negotiators, nothing more. I don’t consider them even good at it. They haven’t received anything from me, and they have nothing. Over the past 47 years, they’ve been negotiating with each president, never delivering results, and growing more powerful.”
President Trump noted that Iran is suffering heavy losses, as U.S. kinetic actions target Iranian military hardware, personnel, and leaders.
This is a developing story.
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