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Trump posts map labeling Strait of Hormuz ‘Trump Strait’

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US President Donald Trump posts a map labeling the Strait of Hormuz “Trump Strait.”

The image on Trump’s Truth Social platform is posted half an hour after the Wall Street Journal published a report saying Trump had rejected Iran’s proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and expected to renew strikes on the Islamic Republic after the US midterm elections in November.

Trump previously mused about renaming Hormuz after himself in a September 2 Truth Social post in which he claimed that the key waterway was “under U.S.A. control.”

Last month, Trump also posted a map describing the strait as “new US territory,” days after he said at a rally that he would make a declaration to that effect.

The strait carried about a fifth of the world’s commercial oil shipments before the US and Israel launched the war on Iran on February 28. Iran began blockading the strait early in the war, sparking a global rise in energy prices. Traffic through the strait remains well below prewar levels.

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