US President Donald Trump on Iran

We’ve hit about 75% of our targets. We stopped a little early because they wanted to have some peace. We have a blockade that’s 100% effective. And they’re getting no business.

They want to make a deal. We have been speaking to them, but they don’t even know who’s leading the country. They’re in turmoil.

They came to us, and they said “we will agree to open the strait,” and all my people are happy. Everybody was happy, except me. I said, wait a minute. If we open this strait, that means they’re going to make $500 million a day. I don’t want them to make $500 million a day until they settle this thing, so I’m the one that kept it closed. We have total control of it. And it’ll open when they make a deal or something else happens.

If they don’t get their oil moving, their whole oil infrastructure is going to explode. Because they have no place to store it.

We’ve never had so much ammunition. Our ships are loaded. Locked and loaded. They’re ready to go.