❌ Lula, Brazil’s president:

Trump has announced that he will open the Strait of Hormuz, but for every ship he frees, the oil owner must pay 20 percent. Was this previously called piracy? It was previously called piracy. So, a great power like the United States, which appears to have fought piracy for a long time, can’t now become a pirate. Did Brazil start a war with Iran? Did Brazil fire or kill anyone? No, it was Trump who began it. We can’t accept that the United States, under the claim that Iran intended to build nuclear weapons, provoked the war. What I can say is: it’s a lie. They manufactured the claim about Saddam Hussein having chemical weapons and went there to destroy Iraq. That was in 2004. Where are the chemical weapons? It has been 22 years. Now Iran had no nuclear weapons, no capability to build them, and no need as well. And then Trump started the war.