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President Trump said Monday that the U.S.’s naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz will be reinstated as both Washington and Tehran fight for control of the crucial waterway after strikes were exchanged over the weekend.
“The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or customers from entering or leaving.”
“All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait,” he said, adding that the U.S. will be known as “the Guardian of the Hormuz Strait.”
Trump said the U.S. will be “reimbursed” 20 percent on all cargo shipped “as a matter of FAIRNESS” for the security needed.
“The U.S.A. will be, from this point forward, known as ‘THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,’ but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World,” he wrote. “The process and formation will begin immediately.”
Trump said earlier Monday that the U.S. would be keeping the strait and “we’ll probably run it.”
Iran, for its part, has pushed back, saying the strait is theirs and they “will not allow a rogue and child-killing army from the other side of the world to continue its illegal interference in it,” according to The Associated Press.
The U.S. “completed a new wave of offensive strikes against Iran” and struck “dozens of targets at multiple locations with precision munitions to degrade Iran’s ability to continue attacking international shipping flowing through the Strait of Hormuz,” U.S. Central Command said Sunday.
The resumed strikes came last week after Iran attacked a container ship in the strait.
Trump at the NATO summit last week said the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is “over.”
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