He also referenced reports that Trump had been evacuated in a catering truck when leaving Turkey the previous month following a credible Iranian assassination threat. A senior Iranian lawmaker on Sunday mocked Donald Trump over the latter’s threat to seize control of the Strait of Hormuz, advising the US president to focus on his own security rather than issue what the lawmaker called “endless bluffs.
“The US President ought to worry about his own security rather than his endless bluffing regarding the Strait of Hormuz; before he ends up hiding in a food truck,” Ebrahim Azizi wrote on X. However, according to a Washington Post report, he was later transferred to a smaller C-32A military aircraft after being driven across the airport in a catering truck. The larger aircraft is said to have functioned as a decoy, leading journalists and certain White House staff members to initially assume the president was on board. “Once we have completely defeated Iran, I will soon declare the Strait of Hormuz US territory,” Trump said, while claiming that the US Navy was maintaining a full blockade of the strait.
Ebrahim Azizi, chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, made the comments in a social media post one day after Trump declared that the US Navy was enforcing a complete blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and indicated that the United States might assert territorial control over the waterway following a victory over Iran.
