Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has said all U.S. military bases in the Middle East should close immediately as those bases will be attacked.

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Khamenei said the Strait of Hormuz must stay closed and that all U.S. military bases in the Middle East should shut immediately, warning of further attacks.

It’s Khamenei’s first public comments since being appointed as Iran’s supreme leader on March 9.

Oil prices extended gains following the comments.

  • FaygoRedPop@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    My brother, who is in the Air Force, told me that they are telling them this:

    The Trump administration has failed to explain the goal of controlling the Strait of Hormuz. If we control the straight, we will control the flow of oil out of the middle east for the next 100 years before China does. China is not going electric as they claim and are just as dependent on oil as the US, so they planned to try to take the strait of Hormuz. We had to control it first.

    I love my brother, but he’s being spoon fed some straight up fucking bullshit.