A top Iranian lawmaker appeared to warn President Donald Trump about his personal safety Saturday, telling the president to “worry about his own security” as tensions escalate over control of the Strait of Hormuz. “The U.S. President ought to worry about his own security rather than his endless bluffing regarding the Strait of Hormuz; before he ends up hiding in a food truck,” Ebrahim Azizi, chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, wrote on X.
Azizi’s reference to a “food truck” appeared to invoke an extraordinary security operation during Trump’s trip to Turkey last month, when the president was secretly transported in a catering vehicle to a separate military aircraft after U.S. officials received intelligence about a potential Iranian threat against Trump or his plane. Trump confirmed the episode earlier this week, saying the Secret Service and military instructed him to switch aircraft as he departed Ankara.
“They wanted me to go on a different flight, a different plane — equal safety — but they wanted me to do it, so I do it. I do what they say,” Trump told reporters. “I guess there was a threat out there. I didn’t really ask too much about it,” he added. “I get a lot of threats.” The president dismissed concerns about his own safety, adding, “I don’t worry about anything, to be honest.”Azizi’s warning comes amid an increasingly heated confrontation between Washington and Tehran over the Strait of Hormuz, with Trump declaring Friday that the United States effectively controls the critical waterway and joking that he would soon make it American territory.
“After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,” Trump said during an event in Nassau County, New York. “Essentially, that’s what it is,” he added. “We have the blockade. No ships get through unless we want them to.” Iranian officials responded defiantly, with Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi insisting Tehran alone would determine when the strait is opened or closed. “The Strait of Hormuz cannot be seized by tweet, nor by aircraft carrier, nor by issuing an order, nor by an election speech,” Gharibabadi wrote on X. “Iran neither fears threats nor cowers before displays of power.” (Read More)
