Opening the Strait of Hormuz has become top US Priority

Crescent International

Dhu al-Hijjah 17, 1447 2026-06-03

Daily News Analysis

by Crescent International

Testifying before Congress on June 2, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the first priority of the Trump regime was to open the Strait of Hormuz.

Prior to the US-zionist attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran, the strait was open to all shipping.

The February 28 illegal and unprovoked attack was launched in the middle of negotations, the second in eight months.

It showed US duplicity, and together with its zionist ward, exposed the criminal nature of the evil duo.

In retaliation for the US-zionist attack, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz to shipping from hostile countries, including the US, zionist Israel and their allies.

It is open to countries that are friendly, or at least not hostile to the Islamic Republic.

Now, the US regime is desperately trying to get the narrow waterway opened.

More than 20 percent of global oil supplies pass through the strait.

Restricted tanker traffic has caused soaring gas prices worldwide, including in the US.

The cascading effect has been felt far and wide.

Grocery prices, fertilizer prices and transportation costs have soared.

These have caused immense difficulties, especially for ordinary Americans who literally live vulnerable hand to mouth.

The US boasts the highest GDP in the world but ordinary Americans do not benefit from it.

The high GDP only benefits oligarchs around Donald Trump and his criminal regime.

The Trump family has raked in $4 billion in one year through shady deals since he became president for the second time in January 2025.

Trump, however, is desperate for a deal with Iran because of soaring prices.

He is squealing like a pig caught by the tail being dragged to the slaugherhouse.

Iran has no interest in saving him.

It insists on a permanent ceasefire on all fronts so that the evil duo would not dare to attack again.

Tehran has threatened to fire hundreds of missiles at northern occupied Palestine if Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Palestine continue.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has made clear that the ceasefire includes Lebanon and Palestine.

Any attacks there are a clear violation of the ceasefire terms.

If the zionist entity does not stop those attacks, Iran would consider that a clear breach of the ceasefire agreement and was under no obligation to hold it.

Further, Iran has suspended the indirect talks because of US-zionist aggression.

While Trump insists that negotiations with Iran “have been going on continuously”, the ground realities point in a different direction.

It is not clear who among the Iranians Trump is talking to.

Perhaps, he is having a conversation with himself.

This is not unusual.

A compulsive liar and fraud, he thinks other people are just as stupid as he is.

Unfortunately most Americans are, especially the MAGA crowd.

Following the US military Central Command’s (CENTCOM) ludicrous claim on June 3 that it had launched “self-defence” fire on Iran’s Qeshm Island, Tehran retaliated against Kuwait and Bahrain.

Iranian drone and missile strikes hit a terminal at Kuwait’s international airport early today.

The Kuwaiti regime said one person was killed and 63 wounded in Iranian drone and missile strikes.

They also inflicted “significant material damage”.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said retaliatory strikes “should serve as a lesson” for the US.

The attacks were in response to US strikes on a commercial vessel and Iran’s communications tower.

Tehran said it attacked the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and a helicopter base in Kuwait.

A pattern has emerged.

Iran will not allow the US and zionist Israel to establish a “new normal” whereby the evil duo carry out criminal attacks and claim nothing had changed.

Iran’s retaliatory strikes are meant to send a clear message that Tehran will hit back any locations from which missiles or attacks on Iranian facilities and the Iranian navy have been conducted.

Tehran had announced even before this illegal war that there will be swift retaliation against any attack from any country.

It will target the location from which the attack originated.

Three regimes in particular have been extremely hostile to Iran: tiny Bahrain, the UAE and Kuwait.

American bases on these entities have been used to attack Iran.

Not surprisingly, Iran’s Foreign Ministry has said that the Kuwaitis and the Bahrainis bear full responsibility for US attacks on Iranian facilities.

Further, Iran’s retaliatory action is also their responsibility because they allowed the Americans to use bases on their land to commit aggression against Iran.