Donald Trump has made official the perimeter blockade of the Strait of Hormuz with a new threat to Iran. This Monday at 10:00 a.m. Washington time (4:00 p.m. Spanish peninsula), Trump has publicly warned “immediately eliminate” any Iranian ship that tries to circumvent a closure that affects any ship that has a port of origin or destination in any of the iranian geography.
The US decision was known after and puts the ceasefire that both parties agreed on last week even more at risk. The
“If any of these vessels come even remotely close to our blockade, they will be eliminated immediately, using the same neutralization system that we use against drug traffickers on vessels on the high seas. It is fast and brutal,” the US president wrote on his Truth Social account.
Certified the closure of the negotiations without success, Trump announced that the US Navy would proceed to block “any and all ships attempting to enter or exit the Strait of Hormuz“and that he would retaliate in the form of”search and interception“of those ships in international waters” that have paid a toll to Iran“.
“No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas,” he noted a few hours ago, in a message that has the price of oil skyrocketed again and has dealt another downward blow to the stock markets.
“The blockade will be applied impartially against the ships of all nations what entering or leaving Iranian ports and coastal areasincluding all Iranian ports in the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman,” the United States Central Command (Centcom) specified shortly afterwards in a message in X to explain the operation.
Said military organization added that its forces would not hinder freedom of the ships transiting to and from non-Iranian portsand that additional information would be provided to commercial mariners through formal notice prior to the start of the blockade.
The British Navy’s Maritime Trading Operations (UKMTO) has extended the advisory to its own ships, also affecting locations along the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea east of the Strait of Hormuz.
At the moment, different tracking pages and satellite references of the Strait of Hormuz show a active traffic in the area despite the US blockade.
