Washington, MINA – US President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States will blockade “any and all ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,” after Saturday’s talks with Iran in the Pakistani capital Islamabad failed to produce a deal to end weeks of war in the Middle East.
“The Blockade will begin shortly. Other countries will be involved with this blockade. Iran will not be allowed to profit off this illegal act of extortion,” Trump said on his Truth Social media platform, as cited by Anadolu Agency.
Since the outbreak of the war, Iran has restricted the movement of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, a key transit route for oil and gas shipments.
The US president also said he ordered the US Navy to “seek and interdict every vessel in international waters that has paid a toll to Iran.”
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During the talks that took place in Islamabad, Trump claimed Iran refused to give up its “nuclear ambitions,” adding that he had been “fully debriefed” on negotiations by US Vice President JD Vance, special envoy Steve Witkoff, and his son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner.
“In many ways, the points that were agreed to are better than us continuing our military operations to conclusion, but all of those points don’t matter compared to allowing nuclear power to be in the hands of such volatile, difficult, unpredictable people,” he said.
Trump also said efforts to clear mines in the Strait of Hormuz would begin, warning that “any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be blown to hell!”
“Their navy is gone, their air force is gone, their anti-aircraft and radar are useless, Khomeini, and most of their ‘leaders,’ are dead, all because of their nuclear ambition,” he said.
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“They want money and, more importantly, they want nuclear. Additionally and, at an appropriate moment, we are fully ‘locked and loaded,’ and our military will finish up the little that is left of Iran!”[]
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