So, there you have it, the meeting went well, most points were agreed to, but the only point that really mattered, NUCLEAR, was not.

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.

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.

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. We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits.

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.

The Blockade will begin shortly. Other Countries will be involved with this Blockade. Iran will not be allowed to profit off this Illegal Act of EXTORTION.

They want money and, more importantly, they want Nuclear. 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!

Iran promised to open the Strait of Hormuz, and they knowingly failed to do so. This caused anxiety, dislocation, and pain to many people and Countries throughout the World.

They say they put mines in the water, even though all of their Navy, and most of their “mine droppers,” have been completely blown up. They may have done so, but what ship owner would want to take the chance?

There is great dishonor and permanent harm to the reputation of Iran, and what’s left of their “Leaders,” but we are beyond all of that. As they promised, they better begin the process of getting this INTERNATIONAL WATERWAY OPEN AND FAST! Every Law in the book is being violated by them.

The meeting with Iran began early in the morning, and lasted throughout the night — Close to 20 hours. I could go into great detail, and talk about much that has been gotten but, there is only one thing that matters — IRAN IS UNWILLING TO GIVE UP ITS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS!

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.

My three Representatives, as all of this time went by, became, not surprisingly, very friendly and respectful of Iran’s Representatives, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, Abbas Araghchi, and Ali Bagheri, but that doesn’t matter because they were very unyielding as to the single most important issue and, as I have always said, right from the beginning, and many years ago, IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!

The single biggest mistake Trump, or any American president has made in my lifetime, is going to war with Iran to change the regime.

I feel sorry for him, as I do for all slaves. He is not free in this moment.

Trump announced a ceasefire with relief, and then the ceasefire ended in 2 hours because Israel intentionally violated the terms by attacking not just southern Lebanon but the city of Beirut.

When I met Vice President Vance just hours before the war began, I formed an impression that both he and the President had a genuine and strong preference to avoid the entanglements of war.

So I urge that the ceasefire be extended and talks continue.

Success may require everyone to make painful concessions, but this is nothing as compared to the pain of failure and war.

"We want to take this card from the Iranians," a senior U.S. official said.

We're going to be blockading [the Strait of Hormuz]. It'll take a little while, but it'll be effective pretty soon.

They wanna have nuclear weapons. They're not gonna have nuclear weapons. I've been saying that for thirty years. I would never allow that to happen before I was in politics, and that country will not have nuclear weapons.

Most countries shouldn't be allowed to have, but that country will not have nuclear weapons.

They came in like they have the cards but they don't have the cards.

The whole place is obliterated. The whole place is gone.

We're very disappointed with NATO. We're very, very disappointed that they didn't come.

Now they want to come, and they want to help with the Strait of Hormuz, and it won't take long to clean it out.

We're going to clean out the strait, and they'll be able to use the strait in not too long a distance.

We had a very intensive negotiation.

And toward the end, it got very friendly and we got just about every point we needed, except for the fact that they refused to give up their nuclear ambition.

That is the most important point by far.

As Bibi Netanyahu said, we're the big brother and Israel is the small brother. It's been a very effective team.

We're putting on a complete blockade. We are not going to let Iran make money on selling oil to people they like or not selling it to people they don’t like.

It’s going to be all or nothing.

You saw what we did with Venezuela; it will be something very similar to that, but at a higher level.

We have highly sophisticated underwater minesweepers, which are the latest and the greatest, but we're also bringing in more traditional minesweepers.

The UK and a couple of other countries are sending minesweepers.

We fly over there at will, can take out anything we want.

As you know last week I said we're going to strongly consider knocking out their power plants and the rest of their bridges. We took down their big bridge.

They haven't left the bargaining table.

I predict they come back and they give us everything we want. I want with everything.

I don't want 90%, I don't want 95%. I want everything! They have no cards.

158 ships are at the bottom of the sea — good and new ones.

I could take out Iran in one day.

I took out one bridge just to show them because they went public with a statement that wasn't true.

I was thinking about calling it the Gulf of Trump, and I decided not to do it.

I think that one maybe wouldn't have worked out. I'm not so sure.

But I was thinking about it's gonna be called the Gulf of Trump.

You know I'm kidding. The fake news will have a headline tomorrow.