Mojtaba goes after Trump, saying that the new management of Hormuz will bring peace and stop the enemy's abuses.

On Thursday, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, went after US President Donald Trump and said that the new management of the Strait of Hormuz will bring peace and stop the enemy's abuses.

He said in a statement that the Islamic Republic will protect its "nuclear and missile capabilities" as a national asset, even though US President Donald Trump is trying to make a deal on those issues. Mojtaba Khamenei spoke in a written statement that was read aloud on Iranian state television. He has been doing this since he took over after the February 28 airstrike that killed his 86-year-old father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

All of Iran's identity-based, spiritual, human, scientific, industrial and technological capacities, from nanotechnology and biotechnology to nuclear and missile capabilities, are national assets, Khamenei said, and ninety million proud and honourable Iranians inside and outside the country will protect them just as they protect the country's waters, land and airspace.

The supreme leader said the only place Americans should be in the Persian Gulf is “at the bottom of its waters,” with the Strait of Hormuz still in Tehran’s chokehold.

"The bright future of the Persian Gulf region will be a future without America, a future that serves the progress, comfort and prosperity of its people, with the help and power of God," Khamenei said in the statement.

“We and our neighbours across the waters of the Persian Gulf and the (Gulf) of Oman share a common destiny. “It has no place for foreigners from thousands of kilometers away who come there with greed and malice – except at the bottom of its waters.

Earlier on Tuesday, President Trump said Iran “just” told the US it was in a “state of collapse”. Trump wrote on social media: “They want us to ‘Open the Hormuz Strait,’ as soon as possible, as they try to figure out their leadership situation.

He also believes they will be able to resolve reported divisions within the Islamic Republic government over negotiations with the US. The White House did not immediately respond to questions about who on the Iranian side delivered the message, who in the Republican administration received it and whether the communications were conducted directly with the US or through an intermediary.

At the same time, the Trump administration appeared unlikely to take up Iran’s offer to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for lifting US sanctions on the country. Iran's proposal would also delay talks over its nuclear programme which US Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to rule out.

"We've got to make sure that any deal that is made, any agreement that is made is one that definitively prevents them from sprinting towards a nuclear weapon at any point," Rubio said Monday on Fox News.

The White House said Trump’s national security team discussed the offer, which was relayed by Pakistan, and that Mr. Trump would talk about it later. The offer was made Monday during a visit to Russia by Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, a longtime key backer of Tehran.