The United States "will continue to assure flow of traffic" through the Strait of Hormuz, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told ABC News' "This Week" on Sunday after the U.S. military struck Iran for the eighth consecutive night for violating the terms of the memorandum of understanding that sought to end the war.

President Donald Trump "is always looking for the diplomatic off-ramp ... [and] wants to end with a peaceful agreement with Iran, but it takes two parties to do that," Wright said. "If they're ... ready to do that, that's the way it will end.

"If not, we will continue to assure flow of traffic through the Strait without Iran's cooperation.

The energy secretary insisted that the U.S. is currently "assuring that oil and gas and other products can flow through the Strait of Hormuz with or without Iranian cooperation. And we've continued to degrade their offensive military capabilities."

When pressed about comments Wright made in March predicting that the Iran war would end in a few weeks or "sooner than that," the energy secretary said, "We needed four to six weeks for military actions.

"They went for five and a half weeks. We did a pause to try to get an agreement with the Iranian people to allow oil to flow without them attacking it. They've proven unwilling to do that. And we've pivoted."

Wright also insisted that it is "absolutely not" true that the flow of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz effectively stopped over the past few days.

"I get the data on that every day," Wright said. "The seven-day trailing average right now is just under 7 million barrels a day flowing through the waterway and just under 7 million barrels a day additional flow through the bypass pipelines.

"So, we're at a little under 14 million barrels a day from the Arabian Gulf region. That's two-thirds of pre-conflict traffic, dramatically up from where we were back in March when I was last on your show."