Iran taunts Trump over ‘joint control of Strait of Hormuz’ and ‘good peace talks’ claims with memes
Iran has taunted Donald Trump with viral memes after he claimed ‘good peace talks’ were underway – with Tehran insisting no such negotiations have taken place.
Posts from an Iranian embassy account appeared to mock the US president, joking about ‘joint control’ of the Strait of Hormuz and sharing spoof messages including a fake WhatsApp-style exchange about talks with the Ayatollah.
In one post, the account shared a novelty kid’s steering wheel next to real wheel with the caption: ‘The Strait of Hormuz will be controlled by me and the Ayatollah’, mocking the idea the rivals could share control of the vital waterway.
The jibes came hours after Trump said Washington had held ‘very good and productive conversations’ with Iran and hinted a deal to ease the spiralling crisis could be within reach.
Trump said he had ordered the Defense Department ‘to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five day period.’
He warned that the cessation of the strikes was ‘subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.’
But Iranian officials have flatly denied any talks ever happened, dismissing the claims and insisting there has been no direct contact with the US.
A regime source taunted Trump by claiming after ‘hearing that our targets would include all power stations in West Asia, he backed down.’
Iran has taunted Donald Trump with viral memes after he claimed ‘good peace talks’ were underway as Tehran insists no negotiations have taken place
Posts from an Iranian embassy account appeared to mock the US president, joking about ‘joint control’ of the Strait of Hormuz and sharing spoof messages including a fake WhatsApp-style exchange about talks with the Ayatollah
Iranian military spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari also mocked Trump in a video, telling him: ‘Hey, Trump, you are fired’
Iranian military spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari also mocked Trump in a video, telling him: ‘Hey, Trump, you are fired… You are familiar with this sentence. Thank you for your attention to this matter.’
Trump floated joint control of the Strait of Hormuz and suggested he didn’t know who was currently leading Iran when responding to a reporter on Monday morning.
Trump spoke to journalists on the tarmac of Palm Beach International Airport as he departed Florida after spending the weekend at Mar-a-Lago and was asked by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins who was in control of the Strait of Hormuz.
The President answered that the Strait would be open ‘real soon’ if a deal he’s teased with Iran works.
‘It’ll be jointly controlled,’ he said of the waterway.
When asked who would be jointly controlling it, Trump added, ‘maybe me, maybe me.’
‘Me and the ayatollah, whoever the ayatollah is, whoever the next ayatollah [is.],’ the President continued.
Trump then argued that no matter what, Iran’s next leader would represent ‘regime change.’
‘There’s automatically a regime change,’ the President added.
Leaders of Iran’s Islamic Republic named Mojtaba Khamenei the new Supreme Leader after his father, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in the first day of Israeli and US strikes.
But Trump confirmed that it’s not Khamenei who the US is negotiating with.
‘We have not heard from the son,’ he told reporters. ‘We don’t know if he’s living.’
Instead the President teased that a Iran ceasefire deal was being worked out with somebody very ‘respected.’
‘We’re dealing with some people that I find very reasonable, very solid, the people within know who they are, they’re very respected, and maybe one of them will be exactly what we’re looking for,’ Trump said.
