Conflict · US troops enter Iran · ArchiveTrump Reveals U.S. Troops Entered Iran, Strait 'Sort of Opened'Aired August 7, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTCWritten September 7, 2026 at 9:22 PM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:00President Donald Trump [music] has0:01publicly acknowledged for the first time0:03that American forces conducted what he0:05called a very important excursion into0:07the Islamic Republic of Iran. He offered0:10no details [music] about when it0:11happened, what it targeted, or whether0:13US personnel were killed or wounded.0:22Trump linked the ground operation0:23directly to preventing Iran from0:25obtaining a nuclear weapon. The0:27disclosure is itself a break with0:28wartime secrecy, only days after he0:31threatened to imprison government0:32leakers who revealed the strain on0:34[music] US missile stockpiles. In the0:35same remarks, Trump claimed the US Navy0:37controls a blockade of the Strait of0:39Hormuz, the narrow waterway through0:41which a fifth [music] of the world's oil0:42supply transits. But then he added a0:45contradictory signal, the strait he said0:47has sort of opened right now0:49>> [music]0:49>> and a fuller deal could be soon. These0:51events form an unstable pattern, an0:53escalating US military footprint on0:55Iranian [music] soil, a naval0:57stranglehold that could send fuel prices0:58back up, and a president simultaneously1:00signaling that the choke point may1:02[music] be loosening. Trump acknowledged1:04fuel prices have fallen to $75, but1:06warned we may have to send it up again.1:08[music]1:08Roughly 1/5 of the world's oil moves1:10through that strait. For American1:12families, the gap between sort of opened1:13and fully open is measured at the pump1:15and in the trajectory of a war whose1:17president [music] has just confirmed1:18American boots on Iranian ground without1:20saying what comes next.Explore with HeyDexThe shortThe short ↗