Khamenei threatens to maintain blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and promises to avenge “the blood of the martyrs” of Iran

According to Iranian media, Khamenei has demanded that the United States withdraw all its military bases from the region and has warned that they will continue to be attacked. It has also threatened to continue the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s crude oil passes.

In his statements, Khamenei has promised to “avenge the blood of the martyrs”, referring to the attack on the Shajareh-Tayyebeh school in the southern city of Minab, where 175 people, most of them girls, died. However, he has not expressly mentioned his father, who died during the first bombings.

“We will be especially sensitive regarding the blood of our children. Therefore, the crime that the enemy deliberately committed against the school in Minab, and some similar cases, has a special status in this accountability process,” Khamenei said.

In addition to insisting on the unity of the Iranian people, he has reiterated that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard will continue to block the Strait of Hormuz as “tool of pressure on the enemy”.

In fact, what is now the thirteenth day of the war has begun with new attacks against oil tankers that were near the coast of Iraq, as well as bombings in Dubai, Bahrain and Kuwait.

As the escalation continues, fears of a protracted war are growing, as oil reserves released this week by the International Energy Agency (IEA) they would only cover 20 days of supply through Hormuz.

Trump wins with the blockade

Donald Trump has assured through a message published on social networks that for him, as president of the United States, “it is of greater interest and much more important to prevent an evil empire, Iran, from obtaining nuclear weapons and destroying the Middle East and the world” than the oil market.

The president has recalled that the country he leads is the largest oil producer and that benefit from a price increase all over the planet. But, according to what has been stated in Truth Social, the military campaign to eradicate the Iranian threat is taking precedence. above economic returns that can report the war.