Donald Trump, the president of the United States, said that the military power of the United States is expanding in an unprecedented way and that 17 new factories, including weapons-production plants, have been built.

Trump added that the economic situation of the Islamic Republic is “awful,” that inflation has risen sharply, and that the Islamic Republic’s oil minister has recently resigned. He also said that tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has reached pre-war levels, and even higher than that.