President Trump said that the US-Israeli war against Iran could end “very soon”, and that “we’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough”.
Donald Trump sought to calm oil markets on Monday, 9 March, but The Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps has responded to Trump's comments that the war in Iran would end soon, saying that they will "determine the end of the war".
Tehran will not allow "one litre of oil" to be exported from the region if the US and Israeli attacks continue, the IRGC says, according to Reuters.
On rising tensions over the Strait of Hormuz, which is crucial to the global energy market as around a fifth of the world's oil passes through the narrow waterway, President Trump issued another warning to Iran:
"If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far," Trump says in an online statement.
"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 — Death, Fire, and Fury will reign upon them — But I hope, and pray, that it does not happen!" he says.
Source: commonspace.eu with the Financial Times, BBC, and Reuters
