New Delhi, April 1 -- US President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday that President of Iran's ''new regime'' has just asked the United States for a ceasefire but said the US will consider it (the request) only when the Strait of Hormuz is open, free and clear. Trump warned that until the ''ceasefire request'' is accepted, the US will be ''blasting Iran into oblivion and back to stone ages.''There was no immediate comment from Iran on Trump's claim.

Trump's claim coincided with Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei's expression of Tehran's ''firm and enduring support'' for resistance against US and Israel.

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) also announced that the Strait of Hormuz is firmly under its naval control, while detail...