{"id":260394,"date":"2026-08-22T16:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260394\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:42:22","slug":"trump-claims-strait-of-hormuz-as-american-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260394\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims Strait of Hormuz as &#8216;American territory&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/news\/trump-serious-about-direct-hezbollah-talks-end-lebanon-war\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US President Donald Trump <\/a>says he views the Strait of Hormuz as &#8220;American territory&#8221; as tensions with Iran escalate over sanctions and negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Trump said the strategic waterway belonged to the US and later joked about bombing Iran again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t even know if we won, because I view the Strait of Hormuz as an American territory right now,\u201d Trump said while addressing a crowd in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a Friday night. We have plenty of time,\u201d Trump said before adding,\u00a0\u201cWhat the hell do I have to do? Go back and bomb Iran a little bit more?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s latest remarks came as Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei described <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/news\/iran-calls-us-sanctions-economic-terrorism\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the latest US economic sanctions against Tehran<\/a> as a \u201cdeclaration of war\u201d on all nations. The sanctions, which are due to be formally announce on Monday, could not only affect Iran but its most important trading partners, including China.<\/p>\n<p>Baghaei added that the imminent US announcement was an \u201cassertion of extraterritorial sovereignty over every independent member state of the United Nations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch secondary sanctions find no foundation in international law,\u201d he said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump, who has warned of economic consequences for any country providing \u201cany type of lifeline to Iran\u201d, said on Friday that Washington was monitoring \u201cwhat happens\u201d in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would love to make a deal, but they\u2019re not ready to make the right deal, in my opinion,\u201d Trump said of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is due to hold a press conference at on Monday, amid promises to unveil \u201cthe toughest sanctions in history\u201d on Iran while also urging China to cooperate with Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump says he views the Strait of Hormuz as &#8220;American territory&#8221; as tensions with Iran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[38,102,34,6475,101,51,73],"class_list":["post-260394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-donald-trump","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-iran-sanctions","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-united-states","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117140163288691712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260394","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=260394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}