Iran condemned the U.S. attempt to impose a naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, questioning whether a \u201crevenge of choice\u201d against the global economy can be an option to win an unlawful \u201cwar of choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tehran – IranView24<\/strong><\/p>\n In a post on X on Monday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei asked, \u201cCan an illegal \u2018war of choice\u2019 be won through a \u2018revenge of choice\u2019 against the global economy?!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIs it ever worthwhile to cut off one\u2019s nose to spite one\u2019s face?!\u201d<\/p>\n The comment came as the U.S. military claimed it began its blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports, with President Donald Trump warning that any attack ships will be \u201cimmediately eliminated\u201d if they attempt to break it.<\/p>\n In yet another bizarre post on X, Trump claimed that the US had \u201cobliterated\u201d 158 Iranian ships in the Persian Gulf and that the Iranian navy is \u201claying at the bottom of the sea.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we have not hit are their small number of, what they call, \u2018fast attack ships,\u2019 because we did not consider them much of a threat,\u201d he wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n \u201cWarning: If any of these ships come anywhere close to our blockade, they will be immediately eliminated, using the same system of kill that we use against the drug dealers on boats at Sea.<\/p>\n In a social media post on April 12, Trump said he intended to clear the Strait of Hormuz of mines and reopen it to all shipping.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iran condemned the U.S. attempt to impose a naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, questioning whether a \u201crevenge of choice\u201d against the global economy can be an option to win an unlawful \u201cwar of choice.\u201d Tehran – IranView24 In a post on X on Monday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei asked, \u201cCan an illegal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":5740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,71,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-important-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5741,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions\/5741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}