After peace talks falter, Trump tries plan B: ‘Blockade’

‘WE’RE PUTTING ON A COMPLETE BLOCKADE’: In an overnight post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump announced his planned blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would begin at 10 a.m. Washington time, 5:30 p.m. in Iran.

“We’re putting on a complete blockade. We’re not going to let Iran make money on selling oil to people that they like and not people that they don’t like,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. “You saw what we did with Venezuela,” he told host Maria Bartiromo. “It’ll be something very similar to that, but at a higher level.”