In a conversation with journalists in the Oval Office, the American President said that the US Navy controls 100% of the Strait of Hormuz and blocks it from Iran: "A wall of steel that never fails" • On Iran's demand for reparations he replied that Washington will also demand money - for 50 years of damage • On the economic situation in Iran he said: "They are completely impoverished, they don't pay their soldiers, 300% inflation"