Donald Trump threatens to bomb Oman if the sultanate obstructs a deal on the Strait of Hormuz
Donald Trump threatened, Monday August 17, to bomb Oman if the country started “across” of an agreement on the Strait of Hormuz, Muscat and Tehran having been holding discussions for weeks without Washington about this strategic maritime passage.
“If Oman gets in our way, we will bomb their face”the American president told Fox News journalist Trey Yingst, according to his publication on X, in response to a question about ongoing exchanges between the two countries.
Iranian and Omani officials have been talking for several weeks to find an agreement on the passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, which passes between the coasts of the two countries. Tehran has blocked the strait almost continuously since the end of February, after the Israeli-American attack on Iran, which triggered the war in the Middle East. In response, the United States imposed a blockade of Iranian ports.
A fifth of the world’s oil
“Talks between Iran and Oman continue in earnest”a spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Monday, adding: “Exchanges of views are taking place on the text of the joint declaration. »
Donald Trump also called on Fox News on Monday for Iran to “raise the white flag of capitulation”. “I’m in no hurry”he added, estimating that the mid-term legislative elections in November, “don’t change anything (s)es thoughts. »
Fox News reporter Trey Yingst also claimed that Donald Trump acknowledged the existence of a direct line of communication between Washington and the Revolutionary Guards, the armed wing of the Iranian regime.
Tehran reaffirmed on Saturday that the Strait of Hormuz “will remain Iranian”after Donald Trump claimed that this passage, through which a fifth of the world’s oil passed before the war, would be part of American territory once Iran “beaten”.
