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Donald Trump has today claimed that Iran wants to open the Strait of Hormuz ‘as soon as possible.’
In a post to Truth Social, the US president said Iranian officials told the US ‘that they are in a “State of Collapse”.
‘They want us to “Open the Hormuz Strait,” as soon as possible, as they try to figure out their leadership situation (Which I believe they will be able to do!)’, he added.
Iran has not yet issued a statement on whether it wants to open the Strait of Hormuz, nor has it yet responded to Trump’s statement.
It comes as the United Arab Emirates announced that it will leave the oil cartel OPEC and its wider OPEC+ group effective from May 1, a move rumoured for some time as the Emirates chaffed under production restrictions and increasingly had frostier relations with neighbouring Saudi Arabia.
The UAE had been a longtime member of OPEC, first through its emirate of Abu Dhabi in 1967 and later when the UAE became its own country in 1971.
But the UAE has been increasingly trying to leverage its own foreign policy in the Middle East that has contradicted some positions of Riyadh over time – particularly as Saudi Arabia began to directly challenge the Emirates in trying to draw foreign investments as the kingdom opened up under assertive Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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