U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that Iran had broken a previously undisclosed “done deal” with Washington, then announced that the United States would become the “Guardian of the Hormuz Strait” and seek a 20% payment on cargo passing through the strategic waterway, Ynet reports.
“We had a deal. What nobody knows, we had a deal. It was a done deal. And then they broke it,” Trump told Fox News. “They always break it. We’ve had 10 deals with these people.”
In a subsequent post on Truth Social, Trump declared that the Strait of Hormuz was open and would remain so “with or without Iran.”
“The U.S.A. will be, from this point forward, known as ‘THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,’” he wrote.
Trump said the United States was reinstating what he called “the Iranian blockade,” which he described as restrictions applying only to Iranian vessels and Iran’s customers. “All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait,” he wrote.
Trump also said the United States would demand reimbursement “at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped” to cover the costs of providing security in the volatile maritime corridor.
“The process and formation will begin immediately,” he added, without providing further details about the legal authority, collection mechanism or countries and vessels that would be subject to the proposed charge.
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