- Iran has suggested that it could deliberately prolong its conflict with the US until Donald Trump leaves office.
- Mohammad Reza Naghdi, a senior adviser to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander, said that dragging out the war demonstrates that “there is a cost” to hostile actions.
- "We have to attain deterrence so that the enemy never dares to attack us, so we can live with security," he told PBS NewsHour.
- Tehran has rejected claims by the president that the US has total control over the Strait of Hormuz, maintaining that the strategic waterway remains blocked.
- Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority said that the strait will not reopen until Tehran’s conditions are fully accepted.
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