🔻The Wall Street Journal: Trump’s remark about turning the Strait of Hormuz into “U.S. territory” was a joke

🔻The Wall Street Journal: Trump’s remark about turning the Strait of Hormuz into “U.S. territory” was a joke

The Wall Street Journal, citing a White House official, has reported that Donald Trump’s remarks about declaring the Strait of Hormuz as U.S. territory were “a joke.”

On Friday, Trump said that after Iran’s “defeat,” the Strait of Hormuz would soon be declared U.S. territory. The remarks were met with reactions from Iranian officials; Kاظم غریب‌آبادی, a deputy foreign minister of Iran, said that the waterway “has been Iranian, is Iranian, and will be Iranian.”