'Your Civilization Will Die': Trump Threatens Iran and Demands US Tolls on Waterway Moving 20% of Global Oil

Donald Trump has taken the fight over the Strait of Hormuz into stranger territory still, floating the idea of American tolls on the vital shipping lane in a Truth Social post on Friday, 20 June 2026, as the fragile US-Iran ceasefire entered its 60-day window. The president said there would be no tolls during the ceasefire period or after it, unless the United States itself imposed them, a line that put Washington, not Tehran, at the centre of the dispute. The news came after Trump had already u