The US will take control of the Strait of Hormuz from Iran and be reimbursed for doing so, Donald Trump has said.
The president claimed the US would become the “guardian angel” of the waterway, a major maritime chokepoint for global energy trade that has effectively been closed by the conflict in the Middle East.
“We’re going to keep the strait, and we’ll probably run it,” Mr Trump told Fox News on Monday. “We’ll become the guardian of the strait. Maybe we’ll call it the guardian angel of the strait. And we should be reimbursed for that.”
