Although he hasn’t been seen in public since becoming Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei vowed in a written statement to use the “lever of blocking the Strait of Hormuz” to keep the enemy “highly vulnerable”. President Donald Trump has urged allies — like France, South Korea, Japan, and the UK — as well as China, to send warships to the Strait to police the area and keep it open for oil shipments. One of the reasons given by the Trump administration for striking Iran in the first place was to avoid nuclear war by stopping the Islamic State from producing nuclear warheads.
Author: Jennifer Bowers Bahney
Published at: 2026-03-15 22:28:10
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