Iranian officials publicly rebuked the Trump administration’s demands Saturday evening after declaring the Strait of Hormuz to be “closed until further notice.”
“The Strait of Hormuz is closed until further notice and until the end of America's interventions in the region, and no vessel will be permitted to pass through,” reads a statement released by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ navy.
On Friday, the Trump administration gave Iran a Saturday deadline to confirm the Strait of Hormuz remained open to commercial vessels. Instead, the Iranian navy fired a “warning shot” at a vessel it claimed had "attempted to transit along an unapproved route,” Reuters reported Saturday, and subsequently closed the strait to all traffic.
The new development comes just one day after Trump declared the delicate ceasefire between the United States and Iran to be “over.” It also comes just hours after Trump threatened to “completely decimate” Iran using “1,000 missiles” that were “locked and loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow.”