President Donald Trump has announced that the US Navy will begin blockading ships in the Strait of Hormuz, after US-Iran peace talks ended in a stalemate.
In a post on Truth social, Trump asserted that the talks went well but did not with a deal. “So, there you have it, the meeting went well, most points were agreed to, but the only point that really mattered, NUCLEAR, was not,” he said.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran has caused global economic turmoil, and a key condition for the US reaching a peace deal with Iran was for them to allow free passage through the waterway.
Trump stated that “effective immediately,” the United States Navy, “the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz.”
“At some point, we will reach an ‘ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO IN, ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO OUT’ basis, but Iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying, ‘There may be a mine out there somewhere,’ that nobody knows about but them. THIS IS WORLD EXTORTION, and Leaders of Countries, especially the United States of America, will never be extorted.”
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Trump disclosed that he has also instructed the US Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. “No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas,” he added.
“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! Iran knows, better than anyone, how to END this situation which has already devastated their Country.”
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Trump asserted that the war on Iran has caused great damage to the country. “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,” adding that other countries will be involved with the blockade.
“Iran will not be allowed to profit off this Illegal Act of EXTORTION. 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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Trump Calls For Iran To Reopen Strait Of Hormuz
In a second post, Trump iterated a call for Iran to reopen Strait of Hormuz.
He noted that Iran promised to open the Strait of Hormuz, “and they knowingly failed to do so.” This, he said, caused “anxiety, dislocation, and pain to many people and Countries throughout the World.”
“As they promised, they better begin the process of getting this INTERNATIONAL WATERWAY OPEN AND FAST!”
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Additionally, he said that he has been fully debriefed by Vice President JD Vance, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner, on the meeting that took place in Islamabad “through the kind and very competent leadership of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan.”
He said that he could go into great detail, and talk about much that has been gotten “but, there is only one thing that matters — IRAN IS UNWILLING TO GIVE UP ITS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS!”
“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.”
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He said that during the hours-long discussion in Islamabad, his three representatives who made up the US delegation, “became, not surprisingly, very friendly and respectful of Iran’s Representatives, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, Abbas Araghchi, and Ali Bagheri.”
However, Trump said that, that doesn’t matter because “they were very unyielding as to the single most important issue and, as I have always said, right from the beginning, and many years ago, IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!”
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