President Donald Trump said Sunday morning that in response to the breakdown in talks between the U.S. and Iran, he would soon order his own blockade on all ships trying to enter or exit the Strait of Hormuz.
Reopening the waterway was a key U.S. demand in the two-week ceasefire agreement Trump announced last week. The future of that deal remains unclear.
“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,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “THIS IS WORLD EXTORTION, and Leaders of Countries, especially the United States of America, will never be extorted.”