Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth said on April 24 that a nearly two-week-long U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports is increasing and “going global” as Washington seeks to exert economic pressure on Tehran ahead of possible negotiations.
The U.S. military blockade is “growing” and has “gone global,” he said at a morning press briefing at the Pentagon, adding that Iran “will never get a nuclear bomb.”
He added that the Iran blockade encompasses the Gulf of Oman in the Indian Ocean to the “open oceans,” while he confirmed that 34 ships have been told to turn around or return to port by the United States since the blockade was initiated on April 13….