Mohammed Mokhber, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, says Tehran will continue to fight for the Strait of Hormuz after Trump pledged to take full control of the crucial trade route.
“We defend it so that in the future, for the passage of our ships, we are not forced to pay tribute to the enemy,” he wrote on X.
“Retreating from this vital matter has no place in the mind of any friend of Iran,” he added.
Trump said on Monday that “we’re taking over the Strait of Hormuz”, a day after announcing that “we bombed the hell out of them”.
Iran asserted control of the formerly freely navigable waterway in retaliation for the US-Israeli war launched on 28 February.
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