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President Trump said Monday that the U.S. will take on the role of “the guardian” of the Strait of Hormuz as Washington and Tehran both claim control of the waterway after exchanging strikes over the weekend.
“We’re going to keep the strait, and we’ll probably run it,” Trump said during a phone interview with “Fox & Friends.”
“We’ll become the guardian of the strait. Maybe we’ll become the guardian angel of the strait, and we should be reimbursed for that,” he said. “When we do that we’re going to be reimbursed because the other nations are very wealthy, they’re on our side, and we can’t be expected to do that for nothing unlike we had for many years.”
“We guarded the strait for 50 years, and we never got paid for it,” he added. “We guarded it for nothing.”
U.S. Central Command (Centcom) announced Sunday that it “completed a new wave of offensive strikes against Iran” and struck “dozens of targets at multiple locations with precision munitions to degrade Iran’s ability to continue attacking international shipping flowing through the Strait of Hormuz.”
“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade. Iran does not control it,” Centcom said. “U.S. forces are postured and prepared to ensure that freedom of navigation remains available to commercial shipping despite Iran’s continued unwarranted aggression, harassment, threats, and arbitrary declarations.”
The Associated Press reported that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps responded by saying, “The Strait of Hormuz is our territory, and we will not allow a rogue and child-killing army from the other side of the world to continue its illegal interference in it.”
The claims regarding control of the Strait of Hormuz come after the U.S. military launched a third round of strikes against Iran, responding to an Iranian attack on a container ship in the strait.
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