Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spokesperson Hossein Mohebbi claimed Tuesday that President Donald Trump has been a “big liar” during the U.S.-Iran war, a report said.
“The enemy [U.S.] knows that Iran is not after nuclear weapons,” Hossein Mohebbi was quoted by Reuters as saying. “Their issue with Iran is not its nuclear program but rather its vastness, which they want to destroy.”
“The fact that the Americans might manage, at great expense, considerable trouble, and high risk to sneak a small vessel through the Strait of Hormuz under cover of darkness to export, say, 100 or 200 barrels of oil does not mean the Strait is open,” Mohebbi reportedly added.
Trump, over the weekend, repeated his vow that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
“They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately because they’re losing so badly,” Trump also said Saturday. “We’re winning tremendously. We have total control of the Hormuz Strait, massive amounts of oil are coming out of the Hormuz Strait.”
Reuters, citing data from analytics firm Kpler, reported that oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz in September were near 10 million barrels a day, about half the volume prior to the war.
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