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Friday, March 13, 2026
Trump: US will escort ships in Strait of Hormuz ‘if needed’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS President Donald Trump says Washington will escort vessels through the Strait of Hormuz if needed, adding in a Fox News interview that the US would strike Iran “very hard over the next week.”
Asked about helping oil tankers pass through the key shipping strait, Trump said: “We would do it if we needed to. But, you know, hopefully things are going to go very well. We’re going to see what happens.” He gives no other details.
“We’re going to be hitting them very hard over the next week,” he adds in the interview with Fox News Radio’s “The Brian Kilmeade Show.”
His comments come as the United States and other countries face spiking oil and gas prices with the US-Israel war entering its 14th day, with oil prices hovering near $100 a barrel on Friday.
The Times of Israel Community.