Trump orders US Navy to dam all ships in Strait of Hormuz after "mine" menace

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Trump orders US Navy to dam all ships in Strait of Hormuz after “mine” menace

3 min learnUp to date: Apr 12, 2026 10:31 PM IST

US President Donald Trump on Sunday mentioned that the American Navy any more will block any and all ships coming into the Strait of Hormuz and would additionally ⁠interdict ⁠each vessel ⁠in ‌worldwide waters that ‌had paid a ‌toll to Iran.

In a put up on Reality Social, Trump mentioned, “Iran promised to open the Strait of Hormuz, they usually knowingly failed to take action. This induced anxiousness, dislocation, and ache to many individuals and Nations all through the World. They are saying they put mines within the water, regardless that all of their Navy, and most of their “mine droppers,” have been utterly blown up.”

Trump’s newest transfer on the Strait of Hormuz comes after US and Iran failed to achieve an settlement to finish their warfare regardless of talks that concluded on Sunday in Islamabad, jeopardising the two-week ceasefire.

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Detailing concerning the talks in Islamabad, Trump mentioned the assembly “went effectively, most factors had been agreed,” however added the 2 sides had not agreed on Iran’s nuclear program.

“Efficient instantly, the United States Navy, the Best in the World, will start the method of BLOCKADING ‌any ⁠and all Ships making an attempt to enter, or depart, the Strait of Hormuz,” the US president introduced, who’s against the thought of Tehran charging ⁠ships a toll to cross by means of the strait.

(Left) Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif meets with Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf in Islamabad; Sharif shakes arms with US Vice-President JD Vance. (Reuters photograph)

Trump mentioned that he has been debriefed by Vice President JD Vance, his particular envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner on the Pakistan talks which did not produce a breakthrough to finish the warfare and solid doubt over two-week ceasefire.

The US president added Washington is able to “end up” Iran on the “applicable second,” and added that Tehran’s nuclear ambitions had been on the centre of the failure to finish the warfare.

The 14-day ceasefire, which was agreed between US-Israel and Iran, expires on April 22. Pakistani mediators have urged all of the events concerned to keep up the ceasefire.

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Trump says Iran nonetheless at bargaining desk, will ‘give us all the things we would like’

Talking later to Fox InformationTrump mentioned that Iran would return to the negotiating desk and that he may take out the Islamic nation “in at some point.”

“I predict they arrive again they usually give us all the things we would like. I would like all the things…They don’t have any playing cards,” the US president mentioned.

“After I say a few civilization. It actually has modified. It actually has. However consider it. They’re allowed to say, ‘Dying to America. Dying to this,’” Trump mentioned. “And I make one assertion. They are saying, Oh, such a giant deal. That assertion received them to the bargaining desk they usually haven’t left it.”

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