US president says his country\u2019s \u200bforces \u2060stopped cargo \u2060ship Touska by \u2018blowing a hole\u2019 in \u200cits engine room.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 19 Apr 2026<\/span>19 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n US President Donald Trump has said United States forces have seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that tried to get past his country\u2019s naval blockade near the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n There was no immediate comment from Iran.<\/p>\n In a social media post on Sunday, Trump said the ship, named Touska, was warned by a US Navy guided missile destroyer in the Gulf of Oman to stop, but its \u201ccrew refused to listen\u201d.<\/p>\n He added that the US Navy \u201cstopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engine room\u201d and that US Marines had custody of the vessel, and were \u201cseeing what\u2019s on board\u201d.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s statement comes amid a standoff in the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for the shipment of about a fifth of the world\u2019s oil, amid threats from Iran and a US blockade on ships heading to and from Iranian ports.<\/p>\n Earlier on Sunday, Iranian officials said ships would not pass while the US blockade \u2013 in place since April 13 \u2013 remained in effect. \u201cIt is impossible for others to pass through the Strait of Hormuz while we cannot,\u201d Iran\u2019s Speaker of Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said.<\/p>\n Iran had announced the strait\u2019s reopening after a 10-day truce between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah took hold on Friday.<\/p>\n But Iran said it would continue enforcing its restrictions there after Trump said the US blockade \u201cwill remain in full force\u201d until Tehran reaches a deal with Washington.<\/p>\n After a short-lived rise in transit attempts on Saturday, ships in the Gulf once again stayed put, after reports of vessels coming under fire mid-passage and being forced to withdraw.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s statement came hours after he said US negotiators would travel to the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on Monday for possible talks with Iran aimed at ending the US-Israel war on Iran.<\/p>\n That had raised hopes of extending a fragile ceasefire set to expire by Wednesday. But Iranian state media reported that Tehran had not agreed to a second round of talks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n US president says his country\u2019s \u200bforces \u2060stopped cargo \u2060ship Touska by \u2018blowing a hole\u2019 in \u200cits engine room. Published On 19 Apr 202619 Apr 2026 US President Donald Trump has said United States forces have seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that tried to get past his country\u2019s naval blockade near the Strait of Hormuz. There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2017-06-08T131939Z_1189275883_RC11B0FE7F20_RTRMADP_3_GULF-QATAR-JAZEERA-1714943623.jpg?resize=96%2C96&quality=80)
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