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Trump hopes ‘many countries’ will send warships to Strait of Hormuz; meantime US will be ‘bombing the hell out of the shoreline’

By ToI Staff 14 March 2026, 4:21 pm
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US President Donald Trump says that “hopefully” many countries will send warships to the Strait of Hormuz area.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump says he hopes that China, France, Japan, South Korea, Britain and others will send ships to the area.

Meantime, he warns, the US “will be bombing the hell out of the shoreline” and will “soon get the Hormuz Strait open, safe and free.”

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