now open<\/span> to all commercial vessels in the wake of the ceasefire reached in Lebanon.<\/p>\nAn outgoing convoy of eight tankers transited the waterway before the renewed closure was announced, Reuters<\/i> reported. It was the first major movement of vessels through the strait since the war began on Feb. 28, the report read.<\/p>\n
Tehran\u2019s tightening control over the strait comes on the backdrop of bellicose rhetoric.<\/p>\n
Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said Iran\u2019s navy was ready to inflict \u201cnew bitter defeats\u201d on its enemies, according to Reuters<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The strait was restored to its \u201cprevious status\u201d and is now \u201cunder strict management and control by the armed forces,\u201d an Iranian engineering firm controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Khatam al-Anbiya, was quoted by The Guardian<\/i> as saying.<\/p>\n
Iraian Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh was cited by The Guardian<\/i> as saying, \u201c[The U.S.] cannot impose their will to do a siege over Iran, while Iran, with good intention, is trying to facilitate safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters at the Oval Office on Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump said that Tehran \u201cgot a little cute \u2026, they wanted to close up the strait again. … they can\u2019t blackmail us,\u201d Axios<\/i> correspondent Barak Ravid reported.<\/p>\n
The president added that by the end of the day, he would know whether the sides would close in on a lasting agreement.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Trump said on Truth Social<\/a><\/span> that the chokepoint was \u201ccompletely open and ready for business\u201d while the U.S. blockade on Iran remains intact.<\/p>\nIn a separate post, he added, \u201cIran has agreed to never close the Strait of Hormuz again. It will no longer be used as a weapon against the World! President DONALD J. TRUMP.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Arizona on April 17, the president said that the U.S. \u201cwill go in together with Iran\u201d to excavate the enriched uranium reportedly buried deep underground after earlier airstrikes on nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s so deep we need the biggest excavators you can imagine,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe\u2019re going to take it back home to the USA very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
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