Hegseth says U.S. military ready to reimpose blockade if Iran doesn’t stick to agreement

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Thursday that the U.S. military stood ready to reimpose its naval blockade of Iran’s ports and vessels if the Iranian regime doesn’t adhere to the agreement signed Wednesday by President Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

“If Iran doesn’t comply, then we’re more than able to reimpose an ironclad blockade,” Hegseth told reporters during a visit to the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

“If underneath the timeline of these talks Iran does not do what it says it’s going to do, just give up nuclear weapons, give up nuclear ambitions, give away their nuclear material, close nuclear facilities, then the War Department is here and prepared to restart if we need to,” Hegseth said.