(So let me get this straight.. Hormuz had been opened up a bit and they are letting traffic thru to help ease burdon on the world... so TrumpyBear declared WE will shut it down for good now... after JD Vance deliberately tanked the peace talks? Is that about the size of it?)
from USA Today
A day after failed peace negotiations between the United States and Iran in Islamabad, President Donald Trump said the U.S. Navy will start blockading the Strait of Hormuz.
In back-to-back posts made to social media early Sunday, April 12, Trump said the United States will also interdict every vessel in international waters that had paid a toll to Iran to pass through the critical shipping route.
"No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits. Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL!"
A blockade, which Trump described as "effective immediately," would be a significant escalation in the Persian Gulf, coming mere hours after U.S-.Iran peace talks ended without a deal. The U.S. and Iran have been in a tenuous, two-week ceasefire that began April 7.
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