Source: Africa Publicity
President Donald Trump has ordered the United States Navy to start blockading the Strait of Hormuz, vowing that “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.”
He also asked the navy to start interdicting vessels that have paid tolls to Iran.
He issued the orders in a post on Truth Social on Sunday, a day after Iran and the US failed to reach an agreement in Pakistan to end their hostilities.
According to Trump,
“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.”
Trump says the US Navy had been instructed to “seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran.”
He accused Iran of extortion, saying “No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas.”
Furthermore, he stated that
the United States would begin destroying underwater mines that he said Iran had laid in the waterway and warned of military retaliation if Iranian forces targeted US or commercial vessels.
He warned “Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL!”
