TEHRAN – Deputy Majlis Speaker Ali Motahari said on Tuesday that “Tehran’s response to U.S. threats of reducing Iran’s oil revenues to zero will be closing the Strait of Hormuz.” 

Motahari lauded President Hassan Rouhani’s implicit warning to close the Strait of Hormuz as a “good threat”, saying, “The Americans are not ready for a new war in the Persian Gulf.”

In May, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would pull America out of a 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran and re-impose the sanctions that the deal had envisaged to be lifted.

MH/PA