NYTIMES (Thomas L. Friedman) - NATO, Please Help. Trump Has No Strategy for Iran.
NATO should overcome its distaste for President Trump and sends its navies to help open up the Strait of Hormuz.
NATO should overcome its distaste for President Trump and sends its navies to help open up the Strait of Hormuz.
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the U.S. would begin guiding ships from other nations out of the Strait of Hormuz, which is a primary shipping artery through which 20% of the world's oil is exported.
The Navy is enforcing a growing global blockade to seize ships doing business with Iran and has authorized lethal force to protect maritime interests.
On Friday's "National Report," War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the George H.W. Bush carrier strike group will join the blockade on Iran. NEWSMAX's Carla Babb reports.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine will speak with reporters Friday morning as tensions remain high over the conflict in Iran and the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz. #petehegseth #trump #iran #straitofhormuz #navy #blockade
While the U.S., Iran and Israel have largely halted the barrage of missile, bomb and drone strikes that defined the first month of the war, a tit-for-tat battle is escalating at sea. The U.S. military and Iran both seized tankers in international waters this week, and Tehran struck vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump threatened further escalation on Thursday, ordering the Navy to fire on any Iranian ships that are placing mines in the strait, a vital shipping lane that carries about one-fifth of all global crude oil in peacetime. #iran #trump #ceasefire #straitofhormuz
State of the Union: A Tehran official says that re-opening the Strait of Hormuz is ‘impossible’ without an end to the U.S. blockade. The post Ceasefire Day 16: Trump Orders Navy to ‘Shoot and Kill’ Mine-Laying, Iranian Boats appeared first on The American Conservative .
In a Thursday morning Truth Social post , President Donald Trump said he has ordered the U.S. Navy to “shoot and kill” any boat “that is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz.” The White House on Wednesday denied reports from Axios that Trump has a three-to-five-day deadline for Iran to accept a deal. “The president has not set a firm deadline to receive an Iranian proposal, unlike some of the reporting we’ve seen today,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. Leavitt said that Trump “is satisfied with the naval blockade.” Iran’s speaker of parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, posted on X Wednesday that reopening the Strait of Hormuz is “impossible” while the U.S. and Israel…Open
Tensions remain high in Iran after the US military seized a cargo ship that President Trump says was trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz blockade. #Iran #Trump #StraitofHormuz
On Sunday, President Donald Trump ordered a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz after Iran continued to levy tolls on commercial ships and refused to […] Source
On Sunday, President Donald Trump ordered a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz after Iran continued to levy tolls on commercial ships and refused to […] Source