said<\/a> the United States would work \u201cin conjunction\u201d with other countries to keep the Strait \u201copen and safe.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n“We have already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability, but it’s easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile somewhere along, or in, this Waterway, no matter how badly defeated they are,” he added.<\/p>\n
Trump added that he hoped China, France, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom would also send war ships to assist in the mission, but none of those countries gave any immediate indication they would do so. <\/p>\n
Trump’s comments come a day after the Pentagon said it had carried out a \u201clarge-scale precision strike\u201d on Kharg Island, a key Iranian oil hub, about 300 miles northwest of the Strait in the northern Persian Gulf. The island is the main export terminal for some 90% of Iran’s oil shipments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“The U.S. will also coordinate with those Countries so that everything goes quickly, smoothly, and well. This should…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,801,3,7688,3310,4011,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-524203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-iran","tag-news","tag-news-desk","tag-oil","tag-oil-prices","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}