Dave DeCamp
The president made the comments a day after the US military struck the Persian Gulf island, where most of Iran’s oil exports move through. So far, the US has spared the oil infrastructure on the island as it fears Iranian retaliatory attacks against oil infrastructure across the Gulf.
“We totally demolished Kharg Island, but we may hit it a few more times just for fun,” Trump said. “We’ve totally decimated it. Except, as you know, I didn’t do anything having to do with the energy lines, because having to rebuild that would take years.”
In posts on Truth Social, Trump issued a contradictory message, claiming that other countries are sending ships to help open the Strait of Hormuz while also asking them to do so, as his administration scrambles to deal with rising oil and gas prices. He also claimed Iran’s military capability has been “100%” destroyed, but acknowledged it still has the ability to attack ships in the strait.
“Many Countries, especially those who are affected by Iran’s attempted closure of the Hormuz Strait, will be sending War Ships, in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the Strait open and safe. We have already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability, but it’s easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile somewhere along, or in, this Waterway, no matter how badly defeated they are,” the president wrote.
“Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation that has been totally decapitated,” Trump added.
A few hours later, the president made a similar post. “The United States of America has beaten and completely decimated Iran, both Militarily, Economically, and in every other way, but the Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage, and we will help — A LOT!” he said.
For its part, Iran has said that the strait is closed unless ships have permission from Tehran. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the strait is “open to everyone, except American ships and those of its allies,” and two Indian-flagged ships safely passed through the waterway on Saturday.
Araghchi added that “people being killed only because President Trump wants to have fun,” an apparent reference to Trump saying the US military was having “fun” sinking Iranian warships and suggesting he may launch more strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf “for fun.”
Brennan asked Arahgchi about a potential nuclear deal between the US and Iran, and Arahgchi said nothing was currently on the table. “Everything depends on the future. If at any time in the future we decide to enter into negotiations with the US or other interlocutors, you know, we may decide what to put on the table. For the time being, nothing is on the table,” he said.
Iran’s message in the face of the US-Israeli bombing campaign, which has killed more than 1,200 Iranian civilians, has been one of defiance. Araghchi and other senior Iranian officials attended a Quds Day march in Tehran on Friday, the same day US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Iranian leadership was hiding like “rats,” though Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has yet to make a public appearance.
“Mr. Hegseth!” Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, wrote on X in response to Hegseth’s comments. “Our leaders have been, and still are, among the people. But your leaders? On Epstein’s island!”
The US president has been asking
other countries for help in opening the Strait of Hormuz
President Trump said on Saturday
that the US may bomb Iran’s Kharg Island again “for fun” and urged other
countries to help the US open the Strait of Hormuz.
The president made the comments a day after the US military struck the Persian Gulf island, where most of Iran’s oil exports move through. So far, the US has spared the oil infrastructure on the island as it fears Iranian retaliatory attacks against oil infrastructure across the Gulf.
“We totally demolished Kharg Island, but we may hit it a few more times just for fun,” Trump said. “We’ve totally decimated it. Except, as you know, I didn’t do anything having to do with the energy lines, because having to rebuild that would take years.”
In posts on Truth Social, Trump issued a contradictory message, claiming that other countries are sending ships to help open the Strait of Hormuz while also asking them to do so, as his administration scrambles to deal with rising oil and gas prices. He also claimed Iran’s military capability has been “100%” destroyed, but acknowledged it still has the ability to attack ships in the strait.
“Many Countries, especially those who are affected by Iran’s attempted closure of the Hormuz Strait, will be sending War Ships, in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the Strait open and safe. We have already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability, but it’s easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile somewhere along, or in, this Waterway, no matter how badly defeated they are,” the president wrote.
“Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation that has been totally decapitated,” Trump added.
A few hours later, the president made a similar post. “The United States of America has beaten and completely decimated Iran, both Militarily, Economically, and in every other way, but the Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage, and we will help — A LOT!” he said.
For its part, Iran has said that the strait is closed unless ships have permission from Tehran. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the strait is “open to everyone, except American ships and those of its allies,” and two Indian-flagged ships safely passed through the waterway on Saturday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas
Araghchi on Sunday denied claims from President Trump that Tehran is seeking
negotiations and a ceasefire with the US and said that Iran is ready to fight
for as long as needed.
“No, we never asked for a
ceasefire, and we have never asked even for negotiation,” Araghchi told CBS
News host Margaret Brennan when asked if Tehran sought a truce. We are ready to
defend ourselves as long as it takes. And this is what we have done so far, and
we continue to do that until President Trump comes to the point that this is an
illegal war with no victory.”Araghchi added that “people being killed only because President Trump wants to have fun,” an apparent reference to Trump saying the US military was having “fun” sinking Iranian warships and suggesting he may launch more strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf “for fun.”
Brennan asked Arahgchi about a potential nuclear deal between the US and Iran, and Arahgchi said nothing was currently on the table. “Everything depends on the future. If at any time in the future we decide to enter into negotiations with the US or other interlocutors, you know, we may decide what to put on the table. For the time being, nothing is on the table,” he said.
Iran’s message in the face of the US-Israeli bombing campaign, which has killed more than 1,200 Iranian civilians, has been one of defiance. Araghchi and other senior Iranian officials attended a Quds Day march in Tehran on Friday, the same day US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Iranian leadership was hiding like “rats,” though Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has yet to make a public appearance.
“Mr. Hegseth!” Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, wrote on X in response to Hegseth’s comments. “Our leaders have been, and still are, among the people. But your leaders? On Epstein’s island!”
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