US President Donald Trump affirmed Wednesday that the Strait of Hormuz will open immediately upon signing a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran.
“The Hormuz Strait will open immediately upon signing. Now that’s subject to a couple of areas being cleaned out, also of mines, which we don’t think there are any, so it’ll happen very quickly, and we’ll take the southern route anyway. But immediately upon signing, we open up the Hormuz Strait,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
“Originally, it was, we will not develop. I said, what about if they buy? That went into two week negotiation, but in the end, we got that. “Now we got it. If they sign the paper, in theory they’re pretty close to signing a paper. We’ve actually gotten along with them very well.
And you know what, you saw it for the last few nights. It takes two to tango. You understand that we hit them very hard on something else unrelated, and so they were responding, but and not very strongly.
“That’s what we’ve done, and they’ve agreed to that, by the way, they, I mean, if they signed the agreement, they will have agreed to, we will not have a nuclear weapon or bomb, we will not develop one, we will not buy one.
He went to say that “One of the other things that happens, this is important, but there’s nothing more important than taking away the capability of a nuclear weapon from Iran, but one of the other things that’s important, and very important, is that immediately upon signing the memorandum of understanding, the Hormuz state will open, and it’ll open up quickly.
“And we’ve already had our minesweepers there, you know, we’re sweeping, as you probably have heard, and these are underwater minesweepers, a great, amazing technology, they’re underwater because usually when you’re looking for mines, that usually means you have some dangerous characters out there this way, so we’re underwater, but we’ve swept mines, and we’ve gotten most of them. – Kuna
