Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Roman. President Trump said today at a post on social media that the U.S. Navy will blockade any and all ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz.

He also said any ship that paid a fee to Iran to pass through the waterway will not have safe passage through the strait.

Trump said the U.S. Navy will begin destroying all mines that Iran has put in the strait.

He called the mining of the strait extortion. This morning, during an appearance on Fox News,

the president discussed the breakdown of negotiations in Pakistan between the U.S. and Iran.

We didn't get there on the important issue. They want to have nuclear weapons. They're not going

to have nuclear weapons. I've been saying that for 30 years. I would never allow that to happen

before I was in politics. And that country will not have nuclear weapons. Most countries

shouldn't be allowed to have, but that country will not have nuclear weapons.

Trump did say that progress was made on other issues, but he called the leadership of Iran,

quote, volatile, difficult, and unpredictable. Leaders from Iran and the United States met face-to-face

in Islamabad, Pakistan, for more than 20 hours Saturday. Vice President J.D. Vance left the talks after he said

the U.S. made its best final offer. Reporter Betsy Jolz in Pakistan says leaders from that country acted

as mediators, but ultimately the two sides were too far apart on the issue of Iran's nuclear

capability to get a deal.

Considering the topics on the table, not really.

I spoke to Muhammad Fissel, a security analyst at the University of Technology, Sydney about this.

Here's what he had to say.

Parties were just coming out of a straight ceasefire.

To expect that they would reach an agreement or a breakthrough in two days or even

24 hours, was expecting too much. And we know that Iran's nuclear program has been a divisive

issue between these countries for a long time. So getting something ironed out in a day would

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