President Trump Says Iran Is Removing Sea Mines From the Strait of Hormuz

Validated reporting from NewsNation and DefenseScoop supports that Trump said mine-clearing was underway in the Strait of Hormuz and that the United States was carrying out or initiating that effort. NewsNation says Trump stated the U.S. had begun sending equipment to clear sea mines and later confirmed the effort in a Truth Social post. DefenseScoop quotes Trump's post as saying, 'We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits.' Al Jazeera further corroborates that CENTCOM announced U.S. ships were involved in a mission to clear mines. However, the specific formulation in the user statement — that Trump said 'Iran is removing sea mines ... with help from the United States' — is not what the validated sources show. The fetched reporting points instead to U.S. mine-clearing activity, not Iran removing the mines with U.S. assistance. Because the provided X post could not be fetched directly, I cannot verify whether that exact wording appeared in the original source. So the broad idea that Trump discussed mine removal in the Strait of Hormuz is supported, but the narrower attribution to Iran doing the removing with U.S. help is not clearly supported and is somewhat at odds with the available evidence.