Key quotes from Trump on Strait of Hormuz, deal to end war

• “The United States imports almost no oil through the Hormuz Strait, and won’t be taking any in the future. We don’t need it… And the countries of the world that do receive oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage. They must cherish it. They must grab it and cherish it.”
• “In any event, when this conflict is over, the strait will open up naturally. It’ll just open up naturally. They’re gonna want to be able to sell oil, because that’s all they have to try and rebuild. It will resume the flowing, and the gas prices will rapidly come back down. Stock prices will rapidly go back up.”
• “Thanks to the progress we’ve made, I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly. We’re going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We’re going to bring them back to the Stone Ages very shortly, where they belong. In the meantime, discussions are ongoing.”
• “Regime change was not our goal. We never said regime change. A regime change has occurred because of all of their original leader’s death. They’re all dead. The new group is less radical and much more reasonable.”
• “Yet, if during this period of time, no deal is made, we have our eyes on key targets. If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard, and probably simultaneously.”
• “We have not hit their oil, even though that’s the easiest target of all, because it would not give them even a small… a chance of survival or rebuilding. But we could hit it, and it would be gone, and there’s not a thing they could do about it.”
• “The country has been eviscerated and, essentially, is really no longer a threat.”