President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States had carried out “minor strikes” and knocked out Iranian anti-aircraft equipment, answering reporters who asked about reported attacks near Iran’s Qeshm Island.
The statement adds a U.S. account to the developing reports from the island near the Strait of Hormuz, a major route for energy shipments. Trump did not identify the location of the equipment he described.
“I don’t wanna talk about it. We do minor strikes,” Trump said in the Friday exchange. “They, uh, built a little bit of an anti-aircraft device and we knocked it out in about 15 minutes, maybe five.”
Reporters twice asked whether the United States had been involved in reported strikes near Qeshm Island. Trump’s answer described U.S. action against anti-aircraft equipment without naming the site.
Why the location matters
Qeshm is near the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway connecting the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. The U.S. Energy Information Administration identifies the strait as one of the world’s most important oil chokepoints.
In its Hormuz analysis, the agency explains that a disruption to a major oil transit route can delay supplies and raise shipping costs. Those stakes make military developments around the strait important to energy importers and businesses that depend on shipping through the region.
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