Iran will close the strategic Strait of Hormuz again if the United States continues its blockade of Iranian ports, parliament speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says.
“With the continuation of the blockade, the Strait of Hormuz will not remain open,” Ghalibaf writes on X, adding that passage through the waterway would depend on authorization from Iran.
Ghalibaf says Trump made seven different claims about the war within an hour, all of which were false.
The US “did not win the war with these lies, and they certainly will not get them anywhere in negotiations either,” Ghalibaf says.
The parliament speaker cites a statement from Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson who disputes each of Trump’s claims in more detail.
While Trump claimed there are no sticking points with Iran regarding a deal and that Tehran has agreed to give of its stockpiles of enriched uranium, the foreign ministry spokesperson says in a statement, “Iran’s enriched uranium is not going to be transferred anywhere under any circumstances.”
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