It wasn’t the first time Trump referred to the vital Middle Eastern passageway as the ‘Strait of Trump’
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It wasn’t the first time Trump referred to the vital Middle Eastern passageway as the ‘Strait of Trump’
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President’s team spent much of last week vowing that U.S. would reopen key waterway and oil shipping route
Trump recently floated the possibility that the strait could be controlled jointly by "me and the ayatollah" as part of a…
The president also said he was offering government-backed risk insurance for ships passing through the Gulf region
The Strait has become a central anxiety for Washington’s allies since Tehran forced its effective closure
The US president made the bizarre suggestion when speaking to reporters that both he and ‘the new Ayatollah’ could also control…
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