US EditionU.S. Central Command says it will begin blockade of Iranian ports Monday
CENTCOM said the blockade will be enforced against vessels of all nations, while ships bound for non-Iranian ports may still transit the Strait of Hormuz.
- On Monday at 10 a.m. ET, U.S. Central Command will begin a blockade of Iranian ports, enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian coastal areas and ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman.
- The blockade follows Sunday's collapse of high-level ceasefire talks in Pakistan, where Washington blamed Iran's refusal to abandon its 60-percent enriched uranium stockpile and renounce nuclear ambitions.
- President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. Navy to interdict vessels in international waters that paid tolls to Iran, declaring, "THIS IS WORLD EXTORTION," and instructed forces to destroy Iranian-laid mines in the waterway.
- CENTCOM clarified that forces will not impede freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports, signaling the blockade targets Iranian traffic without disrupting global shipping corridors.
- Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned, "If you fight, we will fight," while Tehran dismissed the blockade as "ridiculous" and asserted it maintains full control over the strategic waterway despite U.S. action.
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The Central Command of the United States (CENTCOM) has announced that it will begin a blockade of Iranian ports on Monday morning at 10 a.m. (East Coast Time). CENTCOM states that the blockade would be “impartially applied against ships of all nations” entering or leaving the ports and coastal areas of Iran. It also indicated that it would allow transit through the Strait of Ormuz to ships travelling between non-Iranian ports. President Donald T…
There has been doubt about what the United States would specifically block in its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S. Armed Forces announced that they will begin a blockade of all Iranian ports and coastal areas on Monday, moderating President Donald Trump's previous threat to completely block Ormuz's strategic strait, as initial reports indicated that the ships had stopped crossing the sea lane.
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From that point on, the passage for ships calling at or leaving Iranian ports was blocked, the US regional commando Centcom announced on platform X.
US military says it will blockade Iran's ports
Cairo: The U.S. military announced it will begin a blockade of all Iranian ports on Monday, tempering President Donald Trump's earlier vow to entirely block the strategic Strait of Hormuz as early reports indicated that ships had stopped crossing the waterway.The move came after marathon U.S.-Iran ceasefire talks in Pakistan ended without an agreement, and it set the stage for a showdown. Iranian leaders vowed to counter the blockade.U.S. Centra…
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