Iran War Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. is Renewing Ports Blockade and Will Charge Ships 20% Hormuz Fee
The president said the United States would take control of the disputed Strait of Hormuz, charging a 20 percent fee on all goods passing through it, while blockading Iranian ports.
Mr. Trump told Fox News that the United States would charge other countries for keeping the strait safe. “We are going to guard it and we’re going to get paid for guarding it,” he said. The suggestion, which would amount to an expansion of the military conflict, echoed previous threats that had not come to pass.
Hours earlier, Ali Bagheri Kani, the deputy secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, was among the Iranian officials calling for revenge against the United States over the killing of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, describing it as “the right of the Iranian nation,” according to the state broadcaster.
Iran’s military said early Monday that it had launched another barrage of strikes aimed at American military assets in Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman. Hours earlier, U.S. forces said they had launched more strikes aimed at stymying Iran’s ability to attack commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
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The United States will resume its maritime blockade of Iran late Tuesday evening local time, according to U.S. Central Command, which is known as CENTCOM and oversees the American military in the Middle East. “CENTCOM forces will enforce the blockade against vessels transiting to or from Iranian ports and coastal areas,” it wrote in a social media post. “The U.S. military continues to support traffic flow through regional waters for all vessels not violating the blockade.”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrum ... 1653271692Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran. We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or customers from entering or leaving. All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait. The U.S.A. will be, from this point forward, known as “THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,” but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World. The process and formation will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Jul 13, 2026, 4:16 PM
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Trump’s threat to impose fees in the Strait of Hormuz contradicts his aides.
President Trump’s latest threat to impose fees on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz contradicts weeks of declarations by his top aides that no country can charge tolls or fees for passage through the vital waterway that has been a contested space in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.
Mr. Trump told Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” on Monday that America was “going to get paid for guarding” the strait, adding that the United States “will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20 percent,” for all cargo that passes through the waters. Mr. Trump has made remarks before about the United States collecting tolls in the strait, which for decades has been considered for an international waterway.
He and his aides have not explained how his position squares with repeated contradictory public assertions by the likes of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is also Mr. Trump’s White House national security adviser.
Addressing the issue during a visit to the Middle East in late June, Mr. Rubio said: “No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway. That’s existing international law. That’s the way it is in international waterways all over the world, and that’s the way we expect it’ll be here.”
Mr. Rubio spoke before attending a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a group of oil-exporting Gulf Arab countries, after which the United States signed a joint statement declaring that the nations “rejected any tolls, fees or attempts to assert control over the strait.”
Vice President JD Vance took the same position on June 18 as he discussed a cease-fire deal between the United States and Iran that was aimed at reopening the waterway. “We believe international waterways should be free of tolls,” he said during a news conference.
But Mr. Trump said on June 20 that the United States could collect tolls. His statement came six days after he signed an agreement with Iran that formally started the cease-fire to allow for talks on a broader peace settlement. The agreement recognized Iran’s power in the strait and said no country would collect tolls for 60 days, though it left the possibility for tolls open beyond that.
In that statement, Mr. Trump said there would be no tolls after that period either, “unless they are imposed by and for the United States of America, should the deal not be completed, for services rendered as the Guardian Angel to the countries of the Middle East for purposes of both past, present, and future reimbursement of costs.”
It was unclear what Mr. Trump meant by “services rendered.” The U.S. military tried to send naval escorts with commercial tankers through the strait in early May, during a tentative cease-fire with Iran, in what the Trump administration called Project Freedom. But Mr. Trump had to shut that down after less than 48 hours because the crown prince of Saudi Arabia objected to the United States using the country’s airspace for the venture.
Early in the war, the Iranian military effectively closed the strait by laying mines and threatening other attacks. That halted most of the export of a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas, extracted and made by Middle East producers. Iran then began asking shipping companies to pay up to $2 million per vessel for a guarantee of safe passages along a route through the strait that ran close to Iran’s coast.
After the failure of Project Freedom, the U.S. military began a quiet effort to give radio guidance to commercial tankers in order to direct them along a route by Oman’s coast, on the southern side of the strait and opposite Iran’s shore. But Iran attacked three ships traveling in that area last Tuesday, and the U.S. military said it could not guarantee the safe passage of ships. Tanker traffic has plummeted, sending global oil prices soaring.
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Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said forthcoming information would describe when and how the U.S. naval blockade on Iranian ports would be reimposed.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/13 ... ump-hormuz4 hours ago
The U.N. agency that regulates international shipping said it opposed any move to impose tolls for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, after President Trump said the United States would charge a 20 percent fee on all goods passing through the strategic waterway.
The International Maritime Organization said in a statement that it “condemned the attacks on civilian commercial ships and called for the de-escalation of tensions in the Middle East region.”
As of Monday, the Navy had at least 19 warships deployed to the Middle East, the majority of which were sailing in the northern Arabian Sea, a U.S. official said. The vessels include two aircraft carriers, the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS George H.W. Bush; 13 destroyers; the USS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship; a cruiser; and two landing ships.
The overwhelming number of destroyers on hand gives the U.S. a large amount of firepower and presence to carry out the blockade.
The count of ships does not include any nuclear submarines that may be deployed nearby, as the Navy typically does not acknowledge where those vessels are located.
The U.S. official spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide additional details about the force presence near Iran.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... n-us-iran/On Friday night, senior U.S. officials had briefed reporters in Washington, saying they had been assured by Iranian negotiators that attacks on ships in the strait were carried out by a faction that sought to undermine the deal. The senior U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations, said that they hoped that Iran would publicly acknowledge that they “screwed up,” but that the U.S. military would retaliate with 20 times the force if the Iranian military fired.
theoderich hat geschrieben: ↑Di 3. Mär 2026, 20:37Trump’s letter to Congress justifying the strikes on Iran outlines no imminent threat to the U.S.
Trump notifies Congress of new war against Irantheoderich hat geschrieben: ↑Sa 2. Mai 2026, 02:18 Trump argues "hostilities" with Iran "have terminated" in war powers letter to Congress
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/01/world/li ... 6rpm4ry764
President Donald Trump formally notified lawmakers this weekend that the nation is once again at war with Iran, giving his administration another 60-day clock to use the military in the region without congressional approval.
In a letter to Congress dated July 10, obtained by POLITICO, Trump stated that the strikes that began on July 7 represent “military action consistent with my responsibility to protect Americans and United States’ interests both at home and abroad.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/1 ... n-00995170In the letter to Congress, Trump wrote that U.S. military forces “remain postured to take further action, as necessary and appropriate, to address further threats and attacks upon the United States or its allies and partners and to ensure the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran ceases being a threat to the United States and to our allies and partners.”
H. Doc. 119-167 - LETTER INFORMING CONGRESS OF ACTION TAKEN CONSISTENT WITH THE WAR POWERS RESOLUTION
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CDO ... 119hdoc167
Wasserreservoirs, Verkehrs- und Energieversorgungsinfrastruktur sind also "military capabilities posing a threat to United States Armed Forces in the region" ...These strikes were limited, measured, planned, and executed in a manner designed to minimize civilian casualties. These strikes focused on military capabilities posing a threat to United States Armed Forces in the region, protected the United States homeland, advanced United States national interests, secured the safe passage of commercial vessels from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman, and defended our regional allies and partners.
