A senior Iranian official said over the weekend that it was premature to discuss closing the Straits of Hormuz, as Iran has threatened several times. “Discourse about closing the Strait of Hormuz belongs to five years ago. Today’s debate in the Islamic Republic of Iran contains new layers and the time has not come to raise it,” Gen. Masoud Jazayeri said on an Iranian news site.
In response to the Iranian threats last week, the U.S. said that the Straits would remain open in any and all circumstances.