Strait of Deception: Trump's Fantastical Claim on Hormuz Falls Flat Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi has a knack for cutting through the noise with his candid assessment of President Donald Trump's boasts about claiming the Strait of Hormuz as US territory.
His recent characterization of those claims as "fanciful delusions" is apt, given that they are detached from reality.
The exchange between Iran and the United States in this matter has become a familiar pattern in their longstanding standoff.