Trump renews threat to strike Iranian energy sites if Hormuz stays closed
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The news: US President Donald Trump renewed threats to strike Iranian energy infrastructure, including “blowing up” power plants on Kharg Island if a deal isn’t reached and the Strait of Hormuz remains under blockade.
The context: In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that the US is in serious discussions with a new “more reasonable” regime to end its operations in Iran and that while progress has been made, if a deal is not shortly reached and the Strait of Hormuz is not “immediately ‘Open for Business’” the US will “conclude our lovely “stay” in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet “touched.”
He added that the strikes would be in retribution for the deaths of soldiers at the hands of the Iranian regime’s 47 year “Reign of Terror.”
Two container ships linked to the Chinese state-owned Cosco Shipping Corporation were able to exit the Strait of Hormuz after beginning their journey form the Persian Gulf on Monday morning. The ships had first tried to traverse the Strait on Friday before they turned around near Iran.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reiterated Trump’s remarks in an interview with Fox News on Monday, saying: “Over time, the US is going to retake control of the straits, and there will be freedom of navigation — whether it is through US escorts or a multinational escort.”
Bessent said the global oil market is “in deficit about 10 to 12 million barrels a day, and we’re making up for that deficit.”
The sources: Truth Social Trump, Fox News, Bloomberg
