“Today is Persian Gulf Day in Iran, marking our ancestors’ expulsion of Portuguese from Strait of Hormuz 400 years ago,” he wrote in a message on X marking the occasion.
Araghchi pointed out that US President Donald Trump calls the Persian Gulf by its correct name, but the Pentagon has committed a “terrible mistake” by using a fabricated term to describe the body of water.
“POTUS uses the correct term ‘Persian Gulf’, not the Pentagon’s fake version. But calling Hormuz anything else is indeed a ‘terrible mistake’,” he wrote.
Iran has closed the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a vital conduit for global oil and gas supplies, to shipping associated with the US and Israeli regime and their collaborators, since the early days of the military aggression that began on February 28.
Iranian officials say transit through the Strait will be possible only by Iran’s authorization after the war.
