US President Donald Trump claimed that he “knew about the Strait [of Hormuz] that it would be a weapon” and that he “predicted Osama bin Laden would knock out the World Trade Center.” ⁣ In a Washington DC press conference on Monday, Trump also claimed the US had “obliterated” Iran but repeated his call for other nations to help him keep the Strait of Hormuz “open.”⁣ ⁣ Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi has said the Strait - which handles around 20 per cent of global oil traffic - "is open to friends and non-hostile countries, but closed to enemies and those who collaborate with them."⁣ ⁣ Trump’s 2000 book ‘The America We Deserve’ contained one passing mention of Osama bin Laden - “One day we’re told that a shadowy figure with no fixed address named Osama bin-Laden is public enemy number one, and US jetfighters lay waste to his camp in Afghanistan. He escapes back under some rock, and a few news cycles later it’s on to a new enemy and new crisis.”⁣ ⁣ Elsewhere in the book, Trump predicted “we’re...