# @cgtneurope on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DcENqIUmwkp
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69177522-cgtneurope-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-15T15:30:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CGTN Europe (@cgtneurope) — https://gondola.cc/cgtneurope

## Caption

President Donald Trump told Americans to  accept slightly higher gasoline prices as the cost of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and said he would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory.⁣
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"Just remember you're doing it so that a very evil country cannot have…We don't want to have them have a nuclear weapon."⁣
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"And 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."⁣
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Around roughly 20% of global oil and LNG shipments usually pass through the Strait of Hormuz. ⁣
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#DonaldTrump #GasPrices #StraitOfHormuz #Iran

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donaldtrump, iran, gasprices, straitofhormuz

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