Iran doesn’t want Hormuz closed because they are losing 500 million USD a day: Trump

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iran does not want the Strait of Hormuz closed because they are losing 500 million US Dollars a day.

‘They (Iran) want it open so they can make 500 Million US Dollars a day (which is, therefore, what they are losing if it is closed!),’ Trump said on his social media platform.

Iran says they want it closed because they want to ‘save face’ as the US has it totally blockaded, Trump claimed.

He said people had approached him four days ago, saying, Iran wanted to open up the Strait, immediately.

‘But if we do that, there can never be a Deal with Iran, unless we blow up the rest of their country, their leaders included,’ Trump warned.

Renewing his attack on Democrats and US media, especially Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, Trump said they should never be allowed to ‘demean’ or criticise ‘Operation Midnight Hammer’, which had totally obliterated the Nuclear Dust locations to the point where ‘bloodthirsty Iran’ has been unable to get to it, or dig it out.

He claimed that US Space Force has cameras on every inch of the three sites that were hit last June.

‘Operation Midnight Hammer’ is the code name for the June 22, 2025, US military strikes against Iran’s critical nuclear facilities.

The strikes focused on three primary nuclear infrastructure sites: Fordow Uranium Enrichment Plant, Natanz Nuclear Facility and Isfahan Nuclear Technology Centre.

The operation saw a massive display of U.S. air and naval power, involving 7 B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers that flew an 18-hour mission directly from the United States, GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs), 30,000-pound ‘bunker buster’ bombs, used in combat for the first time, 30 Tomahawk Missiles launched from a US submarine, over 125 aircraft, including F-35 and F-22 stealth fighters to suppress Iranian air defences.

According to US officials and satellite imagery the sites sustained “extremely severe damage”. The Pentagon estimated the strikes set Iran’s nuclear program back by roughly two years.