War Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that the U.S. blockade on Iran is going global, adding Tehran had a chance to make a "good deal" with Washington.
"Our blockade is growing and going global," Hegseth told reporters.
"Just this week, we seized two Iranian Dark Fleet ships in the Indo-Pacific region that had left Iranian ports before the blockade went into effect. They thought they'd made it out just in time. They did not. We seized their sanctioned ships, and we will seize more."
"No one sails from the Strait of Hormuz to anywhere in the world without the permission of the United States Navy," he said.
Thirty-four ships had been turned around from the Strait of Hormuz by the U.S. Navy so far, he said.