President Trump says U.S. is the ‘GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT’
As hostilities have begun to resume regularly between the U.S. and Iran, President Trump announced on Monday that a Naval blockade against Iranian ships on the Strait of Hormuz had been reinstated.
by Summer Lane | July 13, 2026
The war with Iran seems to be back on as the U.S. continues to strike the regime hard, and, according to President Donald Trump, American forces are now reinstating a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz.
“The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran,” President Trump said. “We are reinstating the [sic] THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or customers from entering or leaving.”
Keeping the Strait of Hormuz open has been the lynchpin of negotiations with the Iranian regime. President Trump declared on Monday that the U.S. is now “THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT.”
Surprisingly, the president also said that “as a matter of FAIRNESS” the U.S. would be reimbursed at a 20 percent rate 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.”
Presumably, this means the United States will be potentially charging a 20 percent fee on vessels attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz during this time.
It’s unclear if this would qualify as a “toll” in the shipping corridor. Such a fee is something that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has previously noted would not be allowed in international waters, as reported by LindellTV.
During comments Monday morning to FOX & Friends, President Trump said that the U.S. and Iran had an 11-hour meeting on Sunday. “And everything was agreed to yesterday,” he noted. “And they leave the room, and they call back, and they say, ‘We had to make a couple of changes.’”
He said that Iran has been “tapping people along” for 47 years.
According to the U.S. Central Command, U.S. forces completed another wave of strikes against Iran on Sunday, “hitting dozens of targets at multiple locations with precision munitions to degrade Iran’s ability to continue attacking international shipping flowing through the Strait of Hormuz.”
