President Donald Trump on Friday stated that he would declare the Strait of Hormuz as U.S. territory after the end of the Iran war.
Trump made the remarks during a speech at the Nassau County Police Academy in New York.
“And after we finish defeating Iran… pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,” he said, to raucous applause.
The U.S. currently maintains a naval blockade of the critical waterway, through which as much as 20% of the world’s oil supply flows. Iran, meanwhile, has harried commercial vessels moving through the Strait.
The war began in late February with joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The conflict was in a state of nominal ceasefire for weeks until the breakdown of negotiations.
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