President Donald Trump has threatened to ramp up attacks on Iran twentyfold if the country obstructs oil traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, claiming this would be a "gift" for China and other countries that rely on the waterway for energy imports.
"Additionally, we will take out easily destroyable targets that will make it virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back, as a Nation, again," he wrote on Truth Social Friday evening local time. "Death, Fire, and Fury will [rain] upon them. But I hope, and pray, that it does not happen!"
The U.S. and Israel's war against Iran, which has led to the deaths of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of senior officials, prompted the Islamic Republic to retaliate with missile and drone strikes across the region, including on oil infrastructure in neighboring Gulf states. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps on Tuesday renewed its pledge not to let "one liter of oil" leave the region as long as the American and Israeli attacks continue.
