Trump says countries should pay US for protecting Strait of Hormuz
The latest fighting comes less than three weeks after the U.S. and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding.

President Trump name-dropped several Persian Gulf countries Monday that he said should be reimbursing the United States for protection of ships through the Strait of Hormuz. “Yeah, I want to be reimbursed because we’re protecting a very rich portion of the world, we’re spending money, and so what we’ve done is we are going to…
The latest fighting comes less than three weeks after the U.S. and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding.
President Donald Trump’s proposal to implement a 20% tax on goods transiting the Strait of Hormuz was met with backroom pressure from the U.S.’s Gulf allies, contributing to the White House’s reversal just a day later. Trump’s declaration on Monday that the United States would be “known as ‘THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,'” and…
The US is "taking out" all of Iran’s capability that has anything to do with the Strait of Hormuz and will "end up just controlling the whole thing" in the end, President Donald Trump says in the Oval Office. (Source: Bloomberg)