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Washington.- The American President, Donald Trump, asked the countries that have refused to join his military offensive against Iran to act with "courage" and "take" the Strait of Hormuz: "the most complicated is already done. Go for your oil", he insisted in a post on Truth Social.
"To all those countries that can't get aviation fuel because of (the closure of) the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion: First, buy (oil) from the United States, we have plenty; and number two, find some belated courage and go to the strait and TAKE IT," Trump assured this morning on social media. Trump suggested that, after initiating the military offensive against Iran on February 28th with Israel and without consulting its allies, the United States has no interest in opening the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran has closed to important maritime traffic from the Persian Gulf, because it is less exposed to the crude oil coming from that region. "Iran has already been essentially annihilated. The most complicated part is already done. Go for your oil," Trump recommended, in a message that can also be read as a warning to his NATO allies or in Asia, increasingly affected by the detention of the flow of oil, liquefied gas and other essential raw materials from the Middle East."You have to learn to fight for yourselves. The United States of America is not going to be there to help you anymore, in the same way that they were not available when we needed them," Trump lamented.
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The White House spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, recalled this Monday that the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz is not part of the main objectives of the more than one-month military offensive against Iran, which Washington is carrying out jointly with Israel, since the priority is to end the naval, missile, and nuclear development capabilities of the Tehran regime. Trump has reiterated several times that the United States does not meet most of its energy needs from the Persian Gulf and despite the fact that he was the one who decided, along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to start this war against Iran, it is now up to the rest of the countries to undertake the complex and risky task of militarily forcing the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz with attacks on oil tankers and has only allowed the passage of some tankers near its coasts as a tactic to exert global economic pressure during the conflict, which has led the price of a barrel of oil to exceed 100 dollars and put the world on the brink of an unprecedented economic and energy crisis.
