IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir has instructed the military to move to a “heightened state of readiness” and to prepare for a resumption of hostilities with Iran, the Ynet news site reports.
The move comes amid the collapse of negotiations between the United States and Iran.
Citing military officials, Ynet says the IDF is beginning a “combat readiness procedure,” and all units were instructed to maintain high readiness.
Last week, while visiting southern Lebanon, Zamir said that the military is “prepared to return to combat [in Iran] with full force if required at any given moment.”
Trump declares US Navy to begin blockading Strait of Hormuz ‘effective immediately’
US President Donald Trump says the US Navy will immediately start blockading the Strait of Hormuz and will also intercept by force every vessel in international waters that had paid a toll to Iran.
The move follows unsuccessful US-Iranian talks yesterday in Pakistan, where the two parties failed to reach an agreement to end the six-week war in the Middle East.
Trump, in a post on Truth Social, claims that the historic talks “went well” for the most part, but “the only point that really mattered, NUCLEAR, was not” agreed to by Iran.
“Effective immediately,” he says, the US Navy “will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz.”
Trump claims “other countries” will also be involved in his blockade, but does not identify them by name.
He accuses Iran of “world extortion” for saying it had mined the Strait of Hormuz, and repeats his announcement that the US would soon begin de-mining the strait.
“I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas,” Trump declares.
Echoing the inflammatory language he used in the days leading up to the fragile two-week ceasefire brokered by Pakistan, Trump says: “Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL! Iran knows, better than anyone, how to END this situation which has already devastated their Country.”
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