US President Donald Trump on Monday warned that any Iranian attack boats approaching the American naval blockade around Iran’s ports would be destroyed, even as global calls grow for maintaining the ceasefire and resuming negotiations.
The US military said the blockade, which took effect at 1400 GMT, applied to all ships leaving or seeking to dock at Iranian harbors.
In a social media post, Trump said the bulk of Iran’s navy had already been destroyed during the war, but that if any of what he said were Tehran’s few remaining “fast attack ships” approach the blockade “they will be immediately ELIMINATED.”
He also said 34 ships had passed through the strait on Sunday, adding it was the most since the war began, though the figure could not be immediately corroborated.
Trump announced the blockade on Sunday after a delegation led by Vice President JD Vance returned from a meeting with Iranian officials in Pakistan without securing a deal to end the war, launched on 28 February with US and Israeli strikes on Tehran.
