"U.S. Marines have custody of the vessel," Trump said.
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military and government sites.
After initial U.S.-Iran talks in Pakistan failed to reach a peace deal, Trump announced Sunday, April 19, that U.S. negotiators would head back to Islamabad Monday for a new round.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Vice President JD Vance would accompany special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, to Islamabad for the talks.
Iran's continuing blockage of the Strait of Hormuz and their alleged refusal to abandon their nuclear program remain key sticking points in negotiations, according to Trump.
Iran's paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced Friday "a new order" for the Strait of Hormuz, allowing civilian ships to pass through a designated route while banning military vessels and requiring IRGC permission for all passage, according to Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency.
If the American naval blockade of Iranian ports continues, Iran will "undoubtedly take the necessary measures and no adjustments will be made in this regard," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said Friday, according to Iranian state media.
He also emphasized that reopening the Strait of Hormuz, along routes specified by Iran and "in coordination with the competent authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran," was always going to be announced when a ceasefire was reached in Lebanon, as it was part of the conditions in the U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement.
Baqaei said that the Strait of Hormuz "is still under the supervision of the Islamic Republic of Iran and we are serious about our commitments. If the other party wants to breach its obligations again, which it seems to intend to do, the Islamic Republic of Iran will take the necessary countermeasures."
At least 13 people were killed and 70 others were injured in an Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese city of Tyre last night, shortly before the ceasefire went into effect, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.
Nearly 2,300 people have been killed and over 7,500 have been injured in Israeli strikes on Lebanon, according to the ministry.
-ABC News' Ghazi Balkiz
President Donald Trump said he believes U.S. and Iran peace talks will "probably take place over the weekend," telling Axios that he thinks a deal could be secured "in the next day or two."
"The Iranians want to meet. They want to make a deal. I think a meeting will probably take place over the weekend. I think we will get a deal in the next day or two," Trump reportedly said.
The president also said he is "not gonna allow" Israel to bomb Lebanon, following Thursday's announcement of a 10-day ceasefire between the two countries.
"Israel has to stop. They can't continue to blow buildings up. I am not gonna allow it," Trump said, according to Axios.
-ABC News' Emily Chang
