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US President Donald Trump on Friday said that he would “finish defeating” Iran and “soon” declare the Strait of Hormuz part of US territory.Trump has repeatedly said that the key energy waterway, which Tehran effectively closed at the start of the Middle East war, is under US control — although the Islamic republic denies that.“After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated — pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,” he said with a chuckle during a political rally at a police academy in New York State.
In Nicosia on May 4, a person points to a screen displaying a ship-tracking Web site showing vessel movements in the Strait of Hormuz.
“It’s true,” he added.An unnamed White House official later said that Trump was joking, the Wall Street Journal reported.
