In Trump's Truth Social station connected Monday, helium wrote: "The U.S.A. volition be, from this constituent forward, known arsenic "THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT," but arsenic such, and arsenic a substance of FAIRNESS, volition beryllium reimbursed, astatine the complaint of 20% connected each cargo shipped, for immoderate and each costs indispensable to bash the occupation of providing information and information to this precise volatile conception of the World."
The US president added that "the process and enactment volition statesman immediately".
His comments came soon aft helium told Fox News the US would "probably run" the Strait of Hormuz, claiming that Iran "broke" a woody that was made with the US.
"We are taking implicit the strait," helium said.
Tehran has not commented connected the issue.
A spokesperson for the International Maritime Organization - the UN bureau regulating planetary shipping - was quoted by Reuters quality bureau arsenic saying that "IMO stands firmly against charging fees for transition done straits utilized for planetary navigation".
"There is nary ineligible ground done which to present mandatory tolls simply to transit done a strait," the spokesperson added.
It adds "we bash not and volition not allow" the US to power the important waterway - and that Iran's equipped forces are dealing with immoderate disturbances from the "pirate army" of the US.
Any practice with the US volition beryllium considered an enactment of "war" against Iran's sovereignty, it adds, informing that if the struggle spreads "the flames of warfare volition engulf each the countries of the region".
Before Trump's announcement, Iran's apical subject office said it would not let the US to "interfere successful the management" of the Strait of Hormuz.
In a connection shared by Iranian media, Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesperson of Khatam al-Anbiya, said "repeated adventurism and malicious actions" from the US successful the strait person "seriously endangered determination security, planetary commercialized and the transition of lipid tankers and commercialized vessels".
Any practice with the US would beryllium considered an enactment of "war" against Iran's sovereignty, helium added, informing that if the struggle spreads "the flames of warfare volition engulf each the countries of the region".
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