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17 Aug 2026, 19:54

Trump's remarks, parts related to Iran,
Machine translation:
🔻 Reporter: About Iran, you said this morning that if Oman prevents the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, you will bomb Oman. Can it be said that your patience with Oman, this strategic partner, has run out?
🔺 Trump: No, I don’t think they’ve behaved very well, but we deal with them very easily, like other matters.

🔺 Trump:
When I recently called the President of South Korea, whom I like and really think is a very good person, I said to him: “Would you be willing to help us a little? We don’t need help with Iran, but if you’re willing, lend us a hand regarding Iran.”
He said, “No, thank you.”

I said, “Wait a minute; we have 39,000 soldiers over there protecting you from Kim Jong-un, your next-door neighbor, and you don’t want to help us in a very easy military operation in Iran? That’s strange.”
They said, “No, no, we prefer not to get involved.”

I say, well, then why are we involved in helping you? I want to help them, but when you ask someone, “Would you be willing to help us a little?” and they say, “No, thank you,” and then we are protecting them from a country and we are paying billions of dollars ourselves; this costs us billions and billions of dollars.

Not just for them, but for other countries.
Look at NATO. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars to protect Europe from Russia; hundreds of billions, mainly against Russia, but also against other things.

Then they say they don’t want to get involved in protecting the Strait; the very place where they get most of their oil. They get 50% of their oil from there and don’t want to get involved. So why are we doing this?
All I want is fairness.
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🔻Reporter:** With the expiration of the agreement, are you closer today to reaching a final agreement to end Iran's nuclear program?
🔺 Trump: Well, they want to make a deal, but they are not going to make the kind of deal that I consider necessary.
You see, we are there for one reason only: Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. Do you understand? Iran cannot have nuclear weapons and will not have nuclear weapons.
And right now, the fact that they are going to build one after what we did with the B-2 bombers is going to... it’s going to take a long time [inaudible].
But Iran cannot have it; it’s very simple. They cannot have nuclear weapons.

🔻 Reporter: Last week you said you would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz as U.S. territory. Can you elaborate?
🔺 Trump: Well, I think it’s a very good idea. Yes, I mean we control it. We control it with a blockade. We have a blockade. We control it with a blockade, and I like the idea of declaring it as a territory.
We have complete control of the Strait. Now they can cause trouble. They can lay mines in the water, and people don’t like it when their billion-dollar ships hit mines and such.

But the blockade has been very effective, and you know, we are extracting; now maybe this will stop or maybe it will even open up more, but we are extracting millions of barrels of oil every week. If you look at the numbers we are recording, we are doing this.
The Strait is open, and oil prices are going down and will continue to go down unless we decide to do something much more severe than what we are doing now.

Iran is in big trouble.
They have 300% inflation.
The country is in disarray, and the military has completely failed.
Thank you very much, everyone.
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