Xinhua : Trump says to reinstate the naval blockade on Iran
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States was reinstating a naval blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz.
“We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or customers from entering or leaving,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
He claimed that the United States would serve as the “guardian” of the Strait of Hormuz and would impose a 20 percent toll on all cargo shipped through the strategic waterway.
The toll would help cover “any costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World,” Trump said. “The process and formation will begin immediately.”
Traffic in the Strait has plummeted as renewed strikes between the U.S. and Iran heightened safety concerns. Maritime data firm Kpler said 14 ships transited the strait on Sunday, the fewest in a month.
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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.…
