Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Republic’s Armed Forces said: “If Iran cannot trade, if Iran cannot live, then nobody can trade and live.”

On Sunday, Amir Hatami said at Imam Ali Military University: “We have said many times that if the region is to be unsafe, this insecurity will be for everyone.” He also said that the war is not over and is in sensitive stages.

Data from the company Kepler shows that trackable traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has reached three to four vessels per day. This is while the 10-day average for passage through the Strait of Hormuz was about 15 vessels.

On Friday, 80 countries in a joint statement at the United Nations called for the complete and immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz “without imposing any illegal measures or conditions.”

The White House also said that Donald Trump, the U.S. president, and Xi Jinping, the president of China, agreed in their meeting last week that no country or entity should impose tariffs on international waterways.