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US claim for Strait of Hormuz far from its real capabilities - Iranian official

TASS (Russian state media) · back to the audit

RABAT, August 18. /TASS/. - Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei said U.S. plans to unilaterally open the Strait of Hormuz for navigation and then control it do not match Washington's real ability to put them into practice.

Rezaei, speaking to Al Mayadeen: "The gap between the US inability to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and its desire to control it is wider..." [sentence truncated by retrieval tool; remainder unrecovered]

Rezaei "invited all interested parties to create a new cooperation framework in the region 'that will succeed the US hegemony in the Persian Gulf zone.'"

Context: earlier, US President Donald Trump endorsed the idea of proclaiming the Strait of Hormuz US territory.