Iran-US war latest: Trump ‘considering limited airstrikes’ as Strait of Hormuz blockade to begin today
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Blockade by American warships of the Strait of Hormuz to come into force at 3 pm London time on Monday
Trump says the US will blockade the Strait of Hormuz after Iran talks end without a deal
Donald Trump is reportedly considering resuming strikes in Iran after threatening to blockade all ships in the Strait of Hormuz following the collapse of peace talks in Pakistan.
The US president is considering airstrikes on Iran, among other measures, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed US officials.
Trump has threatened to “take out” Iran’s energy infrastructure and that the US military would start “blockading any ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz”.
Trump added, without elaborating: “Other countries will be involved with this Blockade.”
The US Central Command announced that it will blockade all Iranian ports beginning Monday at 10 am EDT, or 5.30 pm in Iran.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned that the blockade of “approaching military vessels to the Strait of Hormuz is considered a violation of the ceasefire”.
Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Naqer Ghalibaf, who led Tehran’s negotiators at the weekend talks with Washington, taunted Trump over rising gas prices, saying, “enjoy the current pump figures”.
Reference Link:- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-us-war-live-trump-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-b2956325.html
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
