Trump parks the 20% rate for crossing the Hormuz Pass in exchange for investments in the US from the Gulf countries

The US president, Donald Trump, announced this Tuesday that he will replace the 20% rate that he intended to apply to cargo ships that cross through the Strait of Hormuz – in a kind of payment for their security – with trade agreements and investments from the Gulf countries in the United States.

This proposal comes after Trump has held “very productive conversations with Middle East leaders” and has predicted that these investments will be “enormous” and “extraordinarily beneficial” not only for the United States, but also for all these countries in the region, which he has not specified.

“We have the largest investment in dollars in history in the United States, but these new investments will make that number even greater, and we will see factories, plants and equipment arrive in the United States at historic levels, which will create millions of well-paying American jobs,” he promised.

Trump has assured that “the United States is winning again, winning like never before” and has stated that “the days in which Iran murdered hundreds of thousands of people, including 52,000 protesters, are over”, citing a figure without any confirmation and far from other estimates.

“Iran will never have a nuclear weapon,” he reiterated in a message on his social networks, in which he praised the “impressive military power” that the United States has been demonstrating in recent months during its war with Tehran, as well as the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and senior Army officers.

“Thanks to them, and all the members of the most powerful Army in the world, the Strait of Hormuz is open to all maritime traffic, except to Iran,” Trump wanted to clarify, blaming the “lying, violent and evil” authorities in Tehran for this.

“We will impose a total blockade, but only on ships arriving or departing Iranian ports, or transporting anything related to Iranian cargo,” the US president said.

Trump declared the Strait of Hormuz “open” on Monday and announced that a 20% tax would be charged on all goods transiting through this passage, as a matter of security, after Iran announced its closure on Sunday in response to the latest US attacks, which represent a violation of the principle of understanding they reached last June.