{"id":108257,"date":"2026-05-11T11:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/108257\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:46:07","slug":"top-iranian-aide-says-trump-cannot-reopen-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/108257\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Iranian aide says Trump &#8216;cannot reopen\u2019 Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Mohammad Mokhber, an adviser and aide to Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has dismissed recent remarks by US President Donald Trump regarding the Strait of Hormuz, saying Washington would never be capable of reopening the strategic waterway. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/farsnews.ir\/miladmaniee\/1778496835486939842\/%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%B1-%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%BE-%D9%87%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B2-%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2-%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%86-%D8%AA%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%87-%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B2-%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fars News Agency<\/a>, Mokhber said Trump was \u201cspeaking about his wishes\u201d and insisted that the United States had no ability to control developments in the strait, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump is talking about his wishes and certainly is not capable of reopening the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d Mokhber said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe strait is in the hands of the Islamic Republic of Iran and is considered one of the achievements of the imposed war,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mokhber said Iran had neglected what he described as a major strategic advantage for years, but was now making use of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, we ignored this great advantage for years, but now we are using it and under no circumstances will we retreat from this path,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The senior Iranian official also stressed that there was full coordination between the country\u2019s political and military leadership despite what he described as efforts by Iran\u2019s enemies to create divisions within the system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, at the top of the system, there is no disagreement, duality, or difference between the field and diplomacy,\u201d Mokhber said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohammad Mokhber, an adviser and aide to Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has dismissed recent remarks by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[38,359,102,34,37312,37311,101,256,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-108257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-gulf","10":"tag-hormuz","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-mokhber","13":"tag-senior-aide","14":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","15":"tag-usa","16":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116555781375591873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}