Iran, on Wednesday (April 1, 2026), said it would open the Strait of Hormuz for all, except for the US and Israel, noting that those who did not follow Tehran’s new rules would be denied access to the maritime passage.
Iranian Parliament’s National Security Commission head Ebrahim Azizi said US President Donald Trump’s claim of realising his dream of “regime change” has resulted in rule changes in the Strait of Hormuz.
“Finally, Trump has reached the dread of ‘regime change,’ but in the regime of the region’s seas! The Strait of Hormuz will certainly be opened; but not for your! For those who follow the new rules of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The 47-year era of hospitality is over,” Azizi said in an X post.
Earlier, Trump told reporters that the US would leave Iran in the next two to three weeks, even if he had no deal with Tehran.
“All I have to do is leave Iran, and we’ll be doing that very soon. And they’ll come tumbling down. And stock prices were up today almost to a record, because they know two things. Number one, we have a safe country. We had to take a little detour because we had a madman named Khamenei, who sadly is no longer with us,” Trump said.
“And we had regime change already. We’ve knocked out one regime, and then we knocked out the second regime. Now we have a group of people that’s very…that are very different. They are much more accessible. They…you know, they…are right, you know, they said we have a present for you, Mr. President, out of respect,” Trump added.
“No, they don’t have to make a deal with me. When we feel that they are for a long period of time put into the Stone Ages and they won’t be able to come up with a nuclear weapon, then we’ll leave, whether we have a deal or not is irrelevant,” the US president said.
“Now, it’s possible that we’ll have a deal because they want to make a deal. They want to make a deal more than I want to make a deal. But in a fairly short period of time, we’ll be finished. They will not be able to do a nuclear weapon for years,” he said.