Go get your own oil from Hormuz: Angry Trump tells allies
Trump ‘interested in calling on Arab states to help pay for Iran war’
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (31 March) lashed out at its long-term allies that did not help in the US-Israeli strikes on Iran warning they will have to start learning to fight for themselves. He also asked them to get their oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
"The USA won't be there to help you anymore, just like you weren't there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil!" he said.
He also urged the countries to buy American oil and go to the Strait of Hormuz and "just take it," Reuters reported.
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Trump singled out Britain and France as unhelpful in the month-long war that has roiled global markets, driven up energy prices and seen Iran effectively close oil tanker traffic through the Strait.
"All of those countries that can't get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the US, we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT," Trump said in a Truth Social post.
He also criticised France for not letting planes carrying military supplies to Israel fly over French territory, reported BBC.
In a follow-up post on Truth Social, Trump says France "wouldn't let planes headed to Israel, loaded up with military supplies, fly over French territory".
Trump may end war with Hormuz closed
While President Donald Trump says Iran "has been decimated," he reportedly told aides he is willing to end the military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed and leave a complex operation to reopen it for a later date.
Trump and his aides had come to the conclusion that a mission to reopen the waterway would extend the length of the mission past his four- to six-week timeline, the Wall Street Journal reported citing administration officials.
Meanwhile, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday that the next few days in the war against Iran would be decisive and warned Tehran that the conflict would intensify if it did not make a deal, reported Reuters.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards hit back with a new threat, saying that they will target US companies in the region in retaliation for attacks on Iran from today (1 April), listing 18 groups including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Intel, IBM, Tesla and Boeing.
Iran earlier set ablaze a fully loaded oil tanker off Dubai, its latest attack on merchant vessels in the Gulf or in the Strait of Hormuz since the United States and Israel attacked Iran on 28 February.
In Washington, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump is interested in calling on Arab countries to pay for the cost of the Iran war.
Asked at a news briefing whether Arab countries would step up to help pay for the war, she said it was an idea that Trump had.
"I think it's something the President would be quite interested in calling them to do," Leavitt said.
