Tehran will use alternative ports to those in southern Iran to bypass the US blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, semi-official Iranian news agency Mehr News is reporting.
The US military has claimed it has “maritime superiority in the Middle East” since the blockade began on Monday, in response to a collapse in US-Iran ceasefire talks over the weekend.
The military’s Central Command said that US forces had completely halted economic trade going into and out of Iran by sea – which it said fueled 90 per cent of Iran’s economy – in just 36 hours.
Donald Trump has since claimed that the Iran war is “close to over” and claimed Tehran wants to make a deal to end the conflict “very badly”.
“If I pulled up stakes right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild their country”, Trump said of Iran in a pre-taped interview with Fox Business.“And we’re not finished. We’ll see what happens. I think they want to make a deal very badly”, the president added.
He predicted that there will be an “amazing two days ahead” but that it “could end either way”, ABC News reported.
