Aug 12 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the United States in is control of the Strait of Hormuz.
“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,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.
(Reporting by David Ljunggren and Ryan Patrick Jones; Editing by Caitlin Webber)
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