Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani asserted that “our tankers are returning home after completing their mission to Venezuela. This means that the strategy of active resistance has been effective, and the fools who sought our siege are now themselves besieged by the power of Iran”. “Trump and Hook’s calls for talks is the proof of this”, he added. The following day, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei addressed the tanker crews to say they had “brought glory to the country”.