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Trump Announces Military Action at Strait of Hormuz

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US President Donald Trump says that the US is going to start blockading the Strait of Hormuz after talks with Iran failed to reach a deal to end the war.

Trump said direct talks with Iran in Pakistan failed because "Iran is unwilling to give up its nuclear ambitions".

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman criticised the US's "excessive demands and unlawful requests". Iran's parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who led Iran's negotiating team, wrote that "the opposing side ultimately failed to gain the trust of the Iranian delegation in this round of negotiations".

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What is a naval blockade and how would it work in Strait of Hormuz?

Donald Trump says that the US is going to start blockading the Strait of Hormuz. What does this mean in practice?
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"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," Trump said.

He added that the US will also begin destroying the mines he said Iran has laid in the strait.

Trump also told Fox News that Nato has offered to help "clean out" the strait, adding that it would be free to use again "in not too long a distance".

Trump said the US would bring in minesweepers, and that the UK - a member of Nato - would too.

"I understand the UK and a couple of other countries are sending minesweepers," he said.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has previously said British military mine-hunting systems are already in the region.

A UK Government spokesperson said: "We continue to support freedom of navigation and the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, which is urgently needed to support the global economy and the cost of living back home."

The spokesperson said the Strait of Hormuz "must not be subject to tolling".

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Iran war: Trump orders Strait of Hormuz naval blockade

Trump said the US Navy would begin blockading the shipping channel "effective immediately." It comes after US and Iranian negotiators failed to reach a deal. DW has more.
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Its about time. We never should have agreed to a cease fire in the first place . Lets break out the B17s and show them what carpet bombing means. BOMB them 24 hours a day first with HE, then with Incendiary, and follow up with Anti Personnel bombs. Come back the next day with Bunker Busters and repeat. None of that was a war crime when we did it to Dresden in WW2 and the Germans didnt have Nukes.
 
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Its about time. We never should have agreed to a cease fire. Lets break out the B17s and show them what carpet bombing means.
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Just my opinion, but the only people with memories shorter than voters are college football fans.

We likely wouldn’t be in this mess but for Trump’s cancellation of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 and utter and complete failure in putting something other than sanctions in place.

Then Trump kills Soleimani in 2020, so what did anyone expect Iran to do? Duh.

Biden said that the United States would return to the deal if Iran came back into compliance, but after more than two years of stop-and-go talks, and in late 2023, provisions of the agreement started to expire. And here we are ….
 
Anchorite said:
Just my opinion, but the only people with memories shorter than voters are college football fans.

We likely wouldn’t be in this mess but for Trump’s cancellation of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 and utter and complete failure in putting something other than sanctions in place.

Then Trump kills Soleimani in 2020, so what did anyone expect Iran to do? Duh.

Biden said that the United States would return to the deal if Iran came back into compliance, but after more than two years of stop-and-go talks, and in late 2023, provisions of the agreement started to expire. And here we are ….
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We're here because they subscribe to a world domination view of an 8th century cult. Islam is the enemy and islam can not be allowed access to WMDs
 
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Issue Statement Regarding Strait of Hormuz

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on Sunday warned that military vessels should avoid the disputed Strait of Hormuz after peace talks between Tehran and the United States fell through.

In a statement released through state-run media outlets, the IRGC said that military vessels will be subject to a “firm response” if they try to pass through the strait, which Iran has blocked since the U.S.–Iran war started in late February.

“Permission to transit, in accordance with specific regulations, is granted exclusively to non-military vessels,” the IRGC said. The statement did not say whether this applied to just the U.S. military or to other countries.
 
The problem is the US refuses to adopt the concept that Total War means TOTAL WAR. Our enemies understand it. They have zero hesitation killing civilians because they realize that civilians are also a target (always have been) The US subscribes to the idea that if we are nice the world will be nice to us, when in fact the world sees us being nice as a weakness. I have no problem with us being nice as long as the world fears us
 
ISW Update on this matter

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Iran Update Special Report, April 12, 2026

The US Navy is attempting to prevent Iranian and Iranian-approved vessels from entering and exiting the Strait.
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Key Takeaways​

  1. The US Navy is attempting to prevent Iranian and Iranian-approved vessels from entering and exiting the Strait, while Iran prevents all other vessels from entering and exiting the Strait. The only vessels moving through the Strait at this time are Iranian and Iranian-approved vessels. Very few ships are transiting the Strait other than the ships moving through Iran’s territorial waters.
  2. The United States and Iran did not reach an agreement during talks in Islamabad, Pakistan, on April 11 and 12. US President Donald Trump emphasized on April 12 that Iran’s delegation did not make compromises on its nuclear program, but that he believed Iran would return to negotiations.
  3. Iran sought an all-encompassing agreement that would have transformed US-Iran relations in fundamental ways, while the United States appeared focused on specific issues related to freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s nuclear program. The multiple competing Iranian factions with divergent priorities and objectives in negotiations that were part of the Iranian delegation also likely made reaching an agreement exceptionally difficult.
  4. Iran has not fired any munitions targeting the Gulf states since ISW-CTP’s last data cut off on April 11. Iranian fired a declining rate of missiles and drones targeting Gulf states since the ceasefire went into effect on April 8.
The US Navy is attempting to prevent Iranian and Iranian-approved vessels from entering and exiting the Strait, while Iran prevents all other vessels from entering and exiting the Strait.[1] The only vessels moving through the Strait at this time are Iranian and Iranian-approved vessels. These Iranian-approved vessels are acceding to Iran’s protection racket and using Iran’s unilaterally imposed traffic separation scheme that forces vessels into Iranian territorial waters. Very few ships are transiting the Strait other than the ships moving through Iran’s territorial waters. Only one ship transited the Strait on April 12 and did not use the Iranian-approved shipping lanes by skirting the southern edge of the Iran-declared hazardous area. US President Donald Trump said on April 12 that the US Navy will “interdict every vessel” that has paid Iran for passage and indicated that enforcement of the blockade will begin soon.[2] Iran has used threats of attacks and a limited number of mines to declare a “hazardous area” across the entire Strait of Hormuz except for Iranian territorial waters, where Iran then imposes fees.[3] The US Navy has deployed ships to clear the remaining naval mines and restore freedom of navigation.[4] Some Gulf countries are also supporting mine-clearing efforts, according to Trump.[5] Two US Navy destroyers transited the Strait on April 11 to set conditions for clearing mines in the Strait of Hormuz. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy threatened the destroyers but did not attack them.[6] The IRGC Navy has threatened that any military vessels in the Strait will be subject to a “decisive response.”[7]

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Anchorite said:
Just my opinion, but the only people with memories shorter than voters are college football fans.

We likely wouldn’t be in this mess but for Trump’s cancellation of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 and utter and complete failure in putting something other than sanctions in place.

Then Trump kills Soleimani in 2020, so what did anyone expect Iran to do? Duh.

Biden said that the United States would return to the deal if Iran came back into compliance, but after more than two years of stop-and-go talks, and in late 2023, provisions of the agreement started to expire. And here we are ….
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Sorry, but Trump's actions in 2018 have no bearing on the fact that I and my friends were on the receiving end of Iranian made 107mm rockets in 2009 -2010 and beyond. Trump's actions have no bearing on Iran smuggling in special machine tools to its proxies to make explosively formed penetrators which killed our soldiers. Trump's actions ... you get my drift.
 
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