Strait of Hormuz: ‘We’ll sink US ships, take their soldiers hostages – Iran Supreme leader warns

Mohsen Rezaei, the subject advisor to Iran’s ultimate leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has said Iran is acceptable to descend US vessels successful the Strait of Hormuz.

The US blockade connected vessels utilizing Iranian ports successful the Gulf was implemented connected Monday evening arsenic a effect to Iran’s near-total closure of the Strait of Hormuz since the onset of the conflict.

Rezaei, a erstwhile commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, said that America has nary rights to the area, saying that Tehran would people American ships successful the Strait of Hormuz if the US chose to “police” this constrictive waterway.

Rezaei, who was appointed arsenic a subject advisor by Khamenei past month, besides threatened to instrumentality American soldiers arsenic hostages if they landed connected Iranian soil, demanding 1 cardinal dollars for each captive.

“[Donald] Trump aims to enactment arsenic the constabulary of the Strait of Hormuz, but we volition not output to our 10 conditions during the little negotiations...