US-Iran Ceasefire Updates: US Warns Of Blocking Strait Of Hormuz, IRGC Says Military Vessels Will Be Dealt Severely

President Donald ‌Trump on Sunday said ⁠the U.S. ‌Navy would ‌immediately ‌start ⁠blockading ⁠the Strait of Hormuz and ‌would also interdict every ‌vessel in international waters ⁠that had paid ‌a toll to ‌Iran.

Trump made his ‌remarks in a Truth ‌Social ⁠post hours after U.S.-Iran peace ⁠talks ended without a deal. Mr. Trump said the meeting “went well, most points were agreed,” ‌but added the two sides had not agreed on Iran’s nuclear program.

“Effective immediately, the United ‌States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of ⁠BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, ‌the Strait of Hormuz,” said Trump, who is strongly opposed to the idea of Iran charging ships a toll to pass through the ‌strait.

“I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters ⁠that has paid a toll ⁠to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll ‌will have safe passage on the high seas,” he said.

Israel’s ‌war with Iran incurred ⁠35 billion shekels ($11.52 ‌billion) in ‌budgetary expenses, ‌with ⁠22 ⁠billion shekels of that going ‌to defence, the Finance Ministry ‌said on Sunday, citing a ⁠preliminary estimate.

The ‌amount has already been added ‌to the 2026 budget, it said.

- Reuters

Defending his planned blockade, the US president says that Iran cannot control which ships go through the Strait of Hormuz, declaring that either every ship should have safe passage or none will.

“We’re not going to let Iran make money on selling oil to people that they like,” Trump told Fox News. “It’s going to be all or none, and that’s the way it is.” “I could take out Iran in one day…I could have their entire energy, everything, every one of their plants, their electric generating plants, which is a big deal,” he said.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has warned that “any miscalculated move will trap the enemy in the deadly whirlpools in the Strait”.

Iran’s Fars news agency is reporting that two oil tankers sailing under Pakistani flags have turned around at the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting they could not make the passage.

The tankers were named Khairpur and Shalamar, the news agency said.

Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun has received a call from Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, who offered condolences following recent Israeli attacks on Lebanon.

According to a statement from the Lebanese presidency on X, Al-Sudani condemned the strikes and expressed Iraq’s support for Lebanon and its people, backing efforts by the government to maintain security and assert state sovereignty.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has issued a statement saying the Strait of Hormuz is “open to the harmless passage of civilian vessels” in compliance with international law.