President Donald Trump has created a new role for the United States — to be “the guardian” of the Strait of Hormuz.
Both the U.S. and Iran claimed control of the strait after exchanging strikes over the weekend.
“We’re going to keep the strait, and we’ll probably run it,” Trump said in an interview via phone 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.”
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U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said Sunday 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 the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said, “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 o came to light after the U.S. military launched a third round of strikes against Iran. This was in response to an Iranian attack on a container ship in the strait.