>Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, a political adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader, said Iranian forces will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are removed from power, marking a sharp escalation in Tehran’s public demands nearly seven months into the war between Iran, the United States and Israel.>Zolghadr, a retired Revolutionary Guard general who was moved from a top security post to the adviser role in August, made the statement on September 17, 2026, in a message marking 200 consecutive days of what he described as Iranian public resistance. “Our fighters will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until criminal Trump and bloodthirsty Netanyahu are removed from power, and this is the first stage of the Iranian people’s revenge,” he said, according to the semi-official WANA news agency. In the same message, he invoked Iranians k*lled since the war began, including civilians in Minab and Lamerd and soldiers in Bampur.
>>542846367>The war began on February 28, 2026, with joint U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, followed by Iranian attacks on Israel and on Gulf states hosting American forces. Roughly one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas passed through the Strait of Hormuz before the war, and shipping volumes remain heavily disrupted, contributing to higher energy prices worldwide. Reuters reported that no U.S.-Iran negotiations to end the war have taken place since an interim agreement collapsed in June, even as Trump has said Washington received a direct message from Tehran, a claim Iranian officials have not publicly confirmed.>The threat follows a similar demand in August from Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, who told China’s ambassador to Tehran that the strait would stay shut until the United States changes its “behaviour” and accepts Iran’s conditions. U.S. Central Command has continued to maintain that the strait remains open and that hundreds of millions of barrels of oil have moved through it in recent months, a claim that conflicts with independent shipping-tracker data showing sharply reduced traffic through the waterway.
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>A political adviser to Iran's supreme leader said Tehran would keep the Strait of Hormuz closed until US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were out of power.“Our fighters will not open the Strait of Hormuz until the criminal Trump and bloodthirsty Netanyahu are brought down from power,” Mohammad-Bagher Zolghadr said, describing the closure as the first stage of Iran's retaliation.>Zolghadr said Iran intended to avenge those killed in the war and portrayed the country's resistance over the past 200 days as proof that efforts to defeat it had failed.https://www.iranintl.com/en/202609171217
>>542846367>No paychecks and high pricesYou think they would've surrendered by now. I would've surrendered if my paycheck was cut.
>>542846580miggers got checkmated
>>542846367I didn't say it before but I'm just going to point this out for how stupid it really is.>trump is in office for two more years>you tell the world this terrorisation by you will continue at least until then>you have even failed to keep your word in the pastDo you dumb fucks not reaize that if most of the leadershits in this world were not bought and paid for by the ccp by saying crap like this you would make most of the world want you dead?I'm starting to think the irgc leadershit is just a virtual boogeyman because how can anyone be this stupid.
>>542846367They've been barking the whole time and likely will keep doing that until the day they die, nothing new there.They can't even escalate verbally just because of how much barking they have done already, whatever they say it's just par for the course.
