On Sept. 17, Mohammad Zolghadr, an adviser to Iranian supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei and a former senior commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, told the world when the Strait of Hormuz would reopen.

“Our fighters will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until the criminal Trump and the bloodthirsty Netanyahu are brought down from power,” he said, “and this is the first stage of the Iranian people’s revenge.”