Iran's Strategic Oil and Military Position

If our oil is not sold, others' oil will not be sold either. This is not a bluff.

This is doable, it is possible.

Closing the Strait of Hormuz is up to the will of the Islamic Republic.

Whatever incident occurs, whatever pressure is put on us

will reflect as pressure on others.

Well, we have 1,600 to 1,700 kilometers of coastline.

Look at this Hengam Island, why?

All the supertankers carrying the oil of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq,

and the UAE must inevitably pass by this island.

As I said, you must think that where you imagine

we are not, we are at the closest point to you.

There has certainly not been a day we haven't thought about this.

How could you not think about the Strait of Hormuz?

How could you not think about the Red Sea?

How could you not think about the Sea of Oman?

How could you not think about the Mediterranean Sea?

How could we not think about these seas?

So how do you want to defend your own countries? You must have thought about it.

You must have provided the appropriate mechanism.

All these forces that you brought and deployed here in the Persian Gulf,

with these tall buildings whose grandeur they show on television, high- rises

in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and various glass structures,

can anyone wage war?

They instigate war, but they know that if this war takes place,

against every Iranian base, they have built bases and have power.

And they know, they themselves declare, that the asymmetric power of the

Islamic Republic against them is incomparable to

their own power.

So for years, before they even entered this line, we have been

prepared for war.

We are ready to defend our nation at all levels, honorably,

powerfully, and we can.