US President Donald Trump, on 9 April, said that Iran is doing a “very poor job” of managing the Strait of Hormuz and warned Tehran against charging fees on oil tankers passing through the critical route. "Iran is doing a very poor job, dishonorable some would say, of allowing Oil to go through the Strait of Hormuz," he wrote on his social media site. “That is not the agreement we have!”The post came after Trump posted earlier, "There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz Strait – They better not be and, if they are, they better stop now! In the first 24 hours of the ceasefire, which Trump announced late on Tuesday (US time), just a single oil products tanker and five dry bulk carriers sailed through the strait. The strait typically saw well over 100 ships passing through it daily in peacetime.

Source: Mint April 10, 2026 06:01 UTC