WNAM REPORT: US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States will help with traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz, hours after Washington and Tehran agreed to a truce.
The countries agreed to a two-week ceasefire barely an hour before Trump’s Wednesday deadline to obliterate Iran was set to expire.
Tehran later said it had agreed to safe passage in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route for oil which has been virtually paralyzed for weeks by the Middle East war, pushing up prices for crude and related products worldwide.
“The United States of America will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
“There will be lots of positive action! Big money will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had said hours earlier that safe passage through the Strait will be possible “via coordination with Iran’s Armed Forces and with due consideration of technical limitations.”
Trump said in his Truth Social post that the United States will be “loading up with supplies of all kinds, and just “hangin’ around” in order to make sure that everything goes well. I feel confident that it will.”
The US president’s tone contrasted starkly with his threat last week to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages.”
“Just like we are experiencing in the US, this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!!!” Trump wrote on Wednesday.
Trump describes deal as victory over Iran
Trump told AFP that it was a “total and complete victory.”
“Total and complete victory. 100 percent. No question about it,” Trump said when asked if he was claiming victory with the ceasefire.
He later said on Truth Social: “A big day for World Peace! Iran wants it to happen, they’ve had enough! Likewise, so has everyone else!”
Trump said progress between the two sides had prompted him to agree to the ceasefire. He said Iran had presented a 10-point proposal that was a “workable basis” for negotiations and that he expected an agreement to be “finalised and consummated” during the two-week window.
Trump later said to AFP: “We have a 15 point transaction, of which most of those things have been agreed on. We’ll see what happens. We’ll see if it gets there.”
