VIA CNN:
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the US will be “helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz,” just hours after announcing a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran contingent on the “COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING” of the critical waterway.
“There will be lots of positive action! Big money will be made,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social just after midnight. “Iran can start the reconstruction process. We’ll be loading up with supplies of all kinds, and just ‘hangin’ around’ in order to make sure that everything goes well. I feel confident that it will.”
Trump did not offer specific details about how the US would help in the strait. CNN has reached out to the White House for additional information.
Trump also celebrated: “A big day for World Peace! Iran wants it to happen, they’ve had enough! Likewise, so has everyone else!”
Background: Earlier, Iran’s foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz during the two-week period “will be possible via coordination with Iran’s Armed Forces and with due consideration of technical limitations.”
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world’s oil typically travels, has largely stalled since the start of the war.
Trump has previously floated the possibility of joint US-Iranian control of the strait, telling CNN last month, “It’ll be jointly controlled. Me and the Ayatollah, whoever the Ayatollah is, whoever the next Ayatollah is.”
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