The Strait of Hormuz, the waterway crucial for global trade that Iran has effectively closed since the beginning of the U.S.-Iran conflict, has reopened after a 10-day ceasefire was called between Israel and Lebanon, President Donald Trump and a top Iranian official said Friday.
Trump welcomed Iran’s reopening of the strait, declaring the critical waterway “COMPLETELY OPEN AND READY FOR BUSINESS” but said that a U.S. naval blockade there remains in effect for Iranian ships.
Trump, in a social media post, said he’d lift that blockade only after “OUR TRANSACTION WITH IRAN IS 100% COMPLETE,” expressing optimism that negotiations on a broader deal with Tehran “SHOULD GO VERY QUICKLY.”
In a second post, Trump claimed that the U.S. will “get all nuclear dust” out of Iran in an agreement, the details of which remained unclear.
