TAKE KHARG ISLAND!

Oil is flowing like never before. The Strait of Hormuz is open to ALL ship traffic except for Iran — because of their lying, violent, malicious leadership, which is taking them down the path of TOTAL DESTRUCTION.

We will therefore have a FULL Blockade, but only on Ships coming to and from Iranian ports, or carrying anything have to do with Iranian cargo.

Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States. Those Investments will be MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future.

The days of Iran killing hundreds of thousands of people, including 52,000 protestors, are OVER and, most importantly, IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!

"We love Iraq. This man just won a big election. They are very well represented, I can tell you that," Trump said.

— The Liberia-flagged Stolt Magnesium caught fire in its engine room 40 nautical miles off South Sharqiyah, with all 23 crew members safely evacuated.

— The Liberia-flagged Mombasa lost engine power after being targeted off Musandam, forcing the evacuation of all 21 crew members, including six injured.

— The UAE-flagged Al Bahyah was also targeted off Musandam. Eighteen crew members were evacuated, while three remain missing.

Throughout history, southern Iran has always been a symbol of resistance against colonialism and the preservation of independence.

Today, too, the noble people of this land, with patience, steadfastness, and perseverance, are honorably enduring the difficult days resulting from the enemy's aggression. I stand beside and am grateful to these loyal and resilient people.

Every part of Iran is my home.

We've already had a good meeting. We're going to decide to do a little lunch. It wasn't scheduled, but we are going to do it on the fly because we have tremendous chemistry together.

The Prime Minister of Iraq has been amazing. He won an election that a lot of people didn't anticipate couldn't be won by anybody else other than another person who was not, in my opinion, a good person (al-Maliki).

We have a fantastic new champion. And he won the election very soundly, very conclusively. And he wasn't favored. But by the time they got to know him, he ended up winning.

He's going to be there for a long time.

He's changed that country so much, especially toward how they're thinking about the United States.

We have tremendous oil partnerships all of a sudden being formed over the last short period of time — among the largest.

He's a young man. He is young and handsome, which I don't like that. I'm not happy about it.