Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi called Trump’s Strait of Hormuz map a “delusion” and said it would be corrected. [S1]
ABC News reports that Trump posted a map on August 18 labeling the Strait of Hormuz a “new” U.S. territory. [S1]
Verification result: unverified insufficient evidence, because ABC is the only supplied independent reporting family that directly says Trump posted the labeled map, while CBS reports only that he suggested claiming the strait. [S1][S2]
No supplied source contradicts ABC’s account, but CBS’s less specific report does not independently confirm the map posting. [S1][S2]
CBS, NBC, BBC and The Guardian report that Trump threatened to strike or bomb Oman if it interfered with a Strait of Hormuz deal. [S2][S3][S4][S5]
The United States and Iran signed a memorandum on June 18 intended to support a ceasefire and partial reopening of the strait. [S4]
Iran said on August 17 that it had reached an understanding with Oman on a transit-route map, with details still to be finalized. [S4]
On August 18, Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the strait would remain closed until the United States accepted Tehran’s demands. [S1]
