Iran hit back at President Donald Trump’s statement that he will “pretty soon” make the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory, with an Iranian diplomat calling Trump’s comments “fanciful delusions.”
Trump escalated his rhetoric aimed at Tehran, declaring on Friday that, “after we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States.” Trump made the comments at an afternoon rally in Garden City, New York, elevating the stakes over vital shipping waterway that has been central to the war and its economic fallout on worldwide energy markets.
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