According to Jin10, U.S. Central Command said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy commander recently claimed that U.S. forces had withdrawn from the Strait of Hormuz and retreated hundreds of kilometers, but that claim was false. The command said its commander’s actions over the weekend showed that U.S. forces deployed in the Middle East remained present and on alert in the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waters. It said U.S. forces and their regional partners jointly control the international waterway, not Iran.