Meanwhile, the United States will relentlessly bomb the coast and continuously sink Iranian ships. Sooner or later, we will manage to make the Strait of Hormuz OPEN, SAFE and FREE, Trump concluded on the social network that has become a kind of war diary through which he reports on US military movements. Hours later, on the same Saturday, Trump again asked for international help to allow ships to pass through the strait. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, expressed confidence this Saturday that "many countries" will send "warships" to the Strait of Hormuz to keep it "open and safe", following the announcement from Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, that the strategic passage would remain closed. "I hope that China, France, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and others affected by this artificial restriction will send ships to the area so that the Strait of Hormuz ceases to be a threat from a completely headless nation," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. The official boasted of the United States' actions—"we have already destroyed 100% of Iran's military capacity," he claimed—but warned of the need for international aid, as he assured that it is "easy for Iran to send one or two drones, lay a mine, or fire a short-range missile at some point in this strait, no matter how defeated they are". In that same message, he maintained the thesis that "the United States has completely defeated and decimated Iran, both militarily and economically and in all other aspects," despite not having provided more data on the end of the military operation, which has now lasted fifteen days. On Friday, he also announced via Truth Social one of the "most powerful" bombings in the history of the Middle East, against military targets on the Iranian island of Kharg, the center of the Islamic Republic's oil industry and where 90% of the oil the country exports to the world is stored. The Iranian reaction was not long in coming, and on Saturday they threatened to destroy "all oil, economic, and energy infrastructure related to the United States" in the Middle East. These movements have raised tension in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, after last Thursday, in his first public message, Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, stated that the strait would remain closed as a lever of pressure as long as US and Israeli attacks continue. The blockade of Hormuz, through which about 20% of the world's oil passes daily, threatens to unleash a global energy crisis. Trump has declared that, "if necessary", the US Navy will begin escorting oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible, and the US Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, has mentioned the possibility of creating an "international coalition" to escort ships through the passage. "The countries of the world that receive oil through the Strait of Hormuz must be in charge of that passage, and we will help... AND A LOT!" the official said. The official assured that "the United States will also coordinate with those countries so that everything happens with speed, fluidity, and success. This should always have been a joint effort, and now it will be; it will unite the world in the pursuit of harmony, security, and lasting peace!"
