Washington DC: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (local time) said it would be “unacceptable” to him if any future deal with Iran included fees on shipping or maritime activities through the Strait of Hormuz.
Speaking to reporters during a meeting with Mark Rutte, Trump said such a provision would be a “game changer.”
“Yeah, it would be unacceptable to me because we have numerous straits that if you did that for them you’d have to do it for other people. You have other straits, well I wouldn’t allow it there either. Yeah, it would be a game changer,” he said when asked whether he would block a final Iran deal if it included shipping fees.
Trump also claimed progress in negotiations with Iran and criticized Democrats over their stance on the conflict.
“So we’re doing great in our negotiations with Iran. Right in the middle of one of the key things which we’re going to get anyway, we got… We had four Republican Senators and all Democrats. You know Democrats, they want to lose the war because they’re stupid. That’s why we call them DUMocrats. Their policy is so bad,” he said.
“The war is going very well. As you know, we’re winning by a lot. Iran is making very big concessions. We’ll see what happens. But it’s been very, very, very powerful. It’s going very, very well,” Trump added.
Earlier, the White House Press Secretary noted that oil prices had fallen to near USD 70 a barrel, their lowest level since before the Iran conflict. Commenting on the development, Trump said, “I see that oil just broke the USD 70 number. Who would have thought that was going to happen? And that’s during a war. And Iran is being very nice. They’re agreeing to everything that I want and they have to. Otherwise, we just go back and do what we have to do.”
Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei responded to a post by the United States Department of State on X, saying that lasting peace in the region would not be possible while American interventionism continues.
In a post on X, Baqaei said, “No one will be fooled; we can’t have a peaceful region so long as American militarism and interventionism persist, and their occupying proxy continues, with absolute impunity, to inflict endless wars across the region and perpetrate genocide, terror violence and every atrocities.”
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