The spokesman said no commercial ship or oil tanker can safely pass through the strait without the “authorization and supervision” of Iran’s Armed Forces, arguing that U.S. threats only demonstrate Washington’s “desperation and helplessness.”

He added that Iranian forces are closely monitoring U.S. and Israeli movements across the region and remain at heightened readiness, warning that “any threat, of any kind and at any level,” would receive an even “more crushing and severe response” in defense of Iran’s sovereignty and national interests.

The leadership’s definitive strategy that the war will shift to an offensive posture if Iran’s conditions are not met will undoubtedly alter the global balance of power.

With the United States having demonstrated its inability to protect its allies in the Persian Gulf, the most sustainable path toward a new regional order is the implementation of an economic-security mechanism for the Strait of Hormuz, independent of Washington’s military guarantees.

I don’t eat fast food anymore if I can help it. Unless President Trump makes me do that.

President Trump actually eats really good food most of the time, but when he’s traveling, he likes to eat food from national chains because he’s scared of getting food poisoning.

When you get on Trump’s airplane, it’s just boxes and boxes of McDonald’s.

Dana White has known Trump very well closely for 25 years or more.

He said that he’s never seen President Trump drink water. He just drinks Diet Coke.

He’s got more energy than anybody I’ve ever met.