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Iran targets tankers in ‘unprovoked attacks’ in Strait of Hormuz, UAE says - Fox News
World8/15/20261 min read
The United Arab Emirates ripped Iran after it attacked two of its ships as they were traveling through the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump has described Iran as “all talk and no action, the bully of the Middle East no longer.”
✨ Key Highlights
- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi responded to President Donald Trump on Friday, insisting that Tehran will keep enforcing its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
- Gharibabadi wrote on X that the strait "cannot be seized by tweet, nor by aircraft carrier, nor by issuing an order, nor by an election speech," and that Iran "neither fears threats nor cowers before displays of power."
- He claimed the United States has suffered "strategic and heavy defeats" and declared that the Strait of Hormuz "has been Iranian, is Iranian, and will remain Iranian," saying it would only open or close under Iran's command.
- According to the official, Tehran intends to maintain the blockade until the U.S. accepts what he called the "reality of defeat."
- Speaking earlier Friday in Nassau County, New York, Trump said that once Iran is defeated, "pretty soon I'll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States," while promoting a U.S. blockade and asserting no ships pass without Washington's permission.
- Iran's Foreign Ministry has previously identified Gharibabadi's X account as one of its official government accounts.
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