Ali Abdollahi – commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Command, the country’s highest operational command that coordinates the armed forces, says that if the US continues its blockade and creates “insecurity for Iran’s commercial ships and oil tankers,” it will “constitute a prelude to violating the ceasefire.”
Abdollahi added that Iran's armed forces, as a result, will not allow "any export or import to continue in the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman and the Red Sea," the BBC reports.
He did not specify which countries' exports and imports might be affected, although the water bodies he mentions cover a very wide area.
The US blockade of Iranian ports began on Monday. On Wednesday, the US military said that “no ships passed the blockade” in the first 24 hours, with six commercial vessels forced to turn back to the Gulf of Oman.
The US-Iran ceasefire was announced on April 8 after almost six weeks of conflict between Iran and the US and Israel.
The first round of negotiations between Iran and the US failed, although US President Donald Trump said that US-Iran talks could resume in the next two days. Iran has not yet confirmed this.
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