WASHINGTON — The US will begin a sweeping blockade of the Strait of Hormuzat 10 a.m. EDT on Monday, with President Trump vowing to fight back against Iran’s “WORLD EXTORTION” and ensure that no one paying tolls to the regime will get through the critical oil chokepoint.

US Central Command announced the halt to “all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports” would be enforced “impartially” against all nations, no matter the point of origin.

“CENTCOM forces will not impede freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports,” the combatant command said in a statement.

Trump said that the negotiations with Iran that concluded Saturday without a deal “went well,” but faulted the Islamic Republic for refusing to budge on its nuclear program, which he described as “the only point that really mattered.”

“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 declared on Truth Social Sunday.

“At some point, we will reach an ‘ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO IN, ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO OUT’ basis, but Iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying, ‘There may be a mine out there somewhere,’ that nobody knows about but them.”

“THIS IS WORLD EXTORTION, and Leaders of Countries, especially the United States of America, will never be extorted.”

“No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas.”

Over a fifth of the world’s seaborne oil supply once traversed through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has used drones and missiles to deter oil vessels from traveling through the critical chokepoint.

Iran claims to have placed mines in the Strait but has lost track of them. It has attempted to charge a toll of $1 per barrel of oil for ships to get through safely, according to US officials. 

The theocratic regime has sought to use revenue from those tolls to rebuild its country after the Operation Epic Fury attacks. 

The president didn’t lay out a specific timeline for when the blockade will officially begin, but teased that it’s happening “shortly.” 

Iran quickly fired back, vowing a “strong and forceful response” to military ships that are sent to the waterway and claiming that it would be considered a violation of the fragile cease-fire with the US.

However, the US claims to have already moved two American Navy destroyers through it on Saturday.

The regime also insisted that it has “full control” of the Strait and that the waterway remains open for non-military vessels.

“Contrary to the false claims of certain enemy officials, the Strait of Hormuz is open for the passage of non-military vessels under smart control and management, in accordance with specific regulations,” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said in a statement, according to two semi-official Iranian news agencies.

The US has taken issue with Iran’s claims that the Strait of Hormuz is open, which Trump said was part of the cease-fire deal, griping over Iran’s attempts to impose tolls and scare off ships with mines. 

Trump announced a fragile two-week cease-fire with Iran last Tuesday after threatening earlier that day that “an entire civilization will die tonight” if Tehran didn’t cut a deal. 

US officials, led by Vice President JD Vance, meet with Iranian negotiators in Islamabad, Pakistan, for close to 21 hours of marathon talks to broker a more permanent end to the war. 

But by the end of those talks, Vance announced that “we have not reached an agreement,” and US officials left. Few details of those negotiations were made public, but Trump claimed that “most points were agreed to,” just not the nuclear issue.

“In many ways, the points that were agreed to are better than us continuing our Military Operations to conclusion, but all of those points don’t matter compared to allowing Nuclear Power to be in the hands of such volatile, difficult, unpredictable people,” Trump wrote in another Truth Social post. 

“That doesn’t matter because they were very unyielding as to the single most important issue.”

A US official briefed on the negotiations with Iran claimed there were six major red lines raised during the talks. 

The US demanded that Iran end all of its enrichment of uranium, dismantle its nuclear enrichment facilities, retrieve the highly enriched uranium buried underground, participate in a broader peace framework with regional allies, end funding for terrorist proxies, and fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz. 

Trump also announced Sunday that the US will “begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits” and warned that any Iranian ship that fires at the US will be “BLOWN TO HELL.”

“Additionally, and at an appropriate moment, we are fully ‘LOCKED AND LOADED,’ and our Military will finish up the little that is left of Iran!”

On Saturday, the US sent two battleships through the Strait of Hormuz as part of an attempt to restore confidence in the critical waterway.

“We have minesweepers there now. We have highly sophisticated underwater minesweepers, which are the latest and the greatest,” Trump told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “But we’re also bringing in more traditional minesweepers.

“I understand the UK and a couple of other countries are sending minesweepers. A lot of countries don’t have minesweepers.”

In response, the UK said Sunday that it is trying to bring together a “wide coalition” to ensure safe passage through the critical waterway.

“We continue to support freedom of navigation and the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, which is urgently needed to support the global economy and the cost of living back home,” a UK government spokesperson told CNN on Sunday.

“The Strait of Hormuz must not be subject to tolling,” the spokesperson added. “We are urgently working with France and other partners to put together a wide coalition to protect freedom of navigation.”

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said last month that “mine hunting systems of ours are already in the region.”

The UK will not, however, participate in a blockade, CNN reported.

The president acknowledged that he is not sure how many mines Iran laid down, but noted that his “inclination” is that Tehran “has a few” mines placed in the Strait of Hormuz.