❗️Trump says US is 'an occupier' in Iran, baselessly claims control over Strait of Hormuz US President Donald Trump said that Washington is "an occupier" in Iran, baselessly asserting that US forces maintain total control over the Strait of Hormuz and are extracting record quantities of oil from the strategic waterway. Speaking to reporters following an address at a NASA facility in Florida, Trump played down the scale of ongoing military aggression. Contrasting the nine-month campaign against Iran with the war between Russia and Ukraine, Trump claimed the US effort could barely be defined as a war due to a lack of recent US casualties, stating, "All we are is maybe an occupier. We could be an occupier." Trump also confirmed recent US military strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island, characterizing the bombardment of an Iranian anti-aircraft position as a "minor" action rather than an expansion of hostilities. "We do minor strikes. They built a little bit of an anti-aircraft device and we knocked it out in about 15 minutes," he claimed. Iranian officials have repeatedly rejected Washington's claims of controlling the Strait of Hormuz, maintaining that Tehran exercises full sovereign authority over the maritime passage and will not permit unhindered commercial transit until its conditions are met.