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Here’s how the US blockade of Strait of Hormuz will likely work after peace talks fail

The US blockade on the Strait of Hormuz is preventing ships from entering or exiting all of Iran’s ports — a monumental task that carries heavy risks and complications, experts said.

President Trump vowed to carry on the blockade as a means to strangle Iran’s already weakened economy as the US and Israel wage war on its terrorist regime.

“Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump said in a post on social media.

“At some point, we will reach an ‘ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO IN, ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO OUT’ basis,” the president said.

Whom does the blockade target?

The blockade began at 10 a.m. ET Monday, blocking ships from entering Iran’s ports while giving neutral ships already there a grace period to quickly exit them.

The tactic is essentially now targeting Tehran’s shadow fleet, which has been trickling the Islamic Republic’s oil through the Strait of Hormuz since the war began last month.

The blockade will not “impede freedom of navigation” for vessels transiting the strait to and from other ports, CENTCOM said.

“The blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman,” the military said.

How will the US enforce it?

US officials have remained mum on how exactly the American Navy will enforce the blockade, but the military has several options.

In times of war, nations can exercise their international right to “visit and search” — or stop and inspect ships and grant or halt their passage, said James Kraska, a professor of international maritime law at the US Naval War College, to the New York Times.

To do that, the US will have to identify, track, contact and potentially board vessels suspected of entering or leaving Iranian ports in one of the most crowded waterways in the world, said Andreas Krieg, a senior lecturer at King’s College London’s School of Security Studies, to NBC News.

“This would look less like a clean historical blockade and more like a messy, high-risk interdiction regime,” Krieg said.

Along with using its own ships, the US could possibly launch air operations to board vessels that try to break the blockade or employ electronic weapons to disrupt the trespassers’ navigation systems.

(…Further details omitted…)

(New York Post Ronny Reyes / AOL, Tue, April 14. 2026)

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