- Abbas Araghchi also commented on US President Donald Trump’s plans to seize control over the waterway and to levy a security toll of 20%
Tehran has always been in control of the Strait of Hormuz, and will keep doing so in the future, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.
“Iran has always been the guardian of the Strait and will remain so forever,” he wrote on the X social network.
Araghchi also commented on US President Donald Trump’s plans to seize control over the waterway and to levy a security toll of 20%.
“20% is of course too much. We will be fair,” Araghchi said.
Meanwhile, President Trump had earlier declared the return of a US naval blockade on Iranian ports on Monday, saying Washington would impose hefty fees on ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz as fighting once again flared over the vital waterway.
The US has vehemently opposed Tehran’s desire to charge tolls in the strait, which international law generally forbids, but on Monday, Trump flipped the script and declared that Washington itself would collect fees.
In a post on his Truth Social site, Trump declared that the US would be “known as ‘THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT’,” and “be reimbursed, at the rate of 20 percent on all cargo shipped, for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World.”
While Iran’s ports would again be blockaded, he said, “all other countries will have fair and open use of the strait.”