Hormuz 10 March 2026 #1

10 March 2026

President Trump warned that “if Iran does anything that stops the flow of oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the U.S. twenty times harder than they have been hit thus far. Additionally, we will take out easily destroyable targets that will make it virtually impossible for Iran to ever be build back, as a nation… But I hope, and pray, that it does not happen”. The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, dismissed what he termed Trump’s “hollow threats…Those even greater than you were unable to eliminate the Iranian nation. Be careful about yourself, so that you are not the one who is eliminated”. Larijani added: “The Strait of Hormuz will either be a strait of peace and prosperity for all or will be a strait of defeat and suffering for warmongers”. President Trump subsequently remarked: “If Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, immediately! If for any reason mines were placed, and they are not removed forthwith, the military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before”. “If, on the other hand, they remove what may have been placed, it will be a giant step in the right direction”, he added. Later, he said “we have hit, and completely destroyed, ten inactive mine-laying boats and/or ships, with more to follow”.