Ten days ago Donald Trump ordered US Navy warships to sail into the Gulf of Oman and announced the United States was blockading Iranian ports and shutting down the regime's oil trade.Since then, a battle of the blockades has ensued as Iran has backflipped on what to do with the Strait of Hormuz.As different directives were announced, some ships have crossed the strait while others have been turned around.And despite the US announcing ships from all Iranian ports were under blockade, data shows several ships likely linked to Iran have made it through.Some ships have been seized by US forces, while others have been fired upon by Iran and, most recently, boarded by the regime's revolutionary guards.This is all while both sides maintain there is a ceasefire in place and as a second round of peace talks lingers.On Wednesday, local time, Iran fired upon three ships and seized two of them in the Strait of Hormuz She called it an act of "piracy".However, Iran has slammed the US over their blockade.Iran's parliament speaker and lead negotiator Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf told Mr Trump: "You did not achieve your goals through military aggression, and you will not achieve them by bullying either."Iranian military might is again being flexed across the Strait of Hormuz while US warships blockade regime oil leaving its ports just to the west in the Gulf of Oman.Washington appears to be waiting for the opportunity to make a deal while Tehran's political and military elite are yet to agree on whether it still wants one.And for the thousands of sailors on ships in the Persian Gulf, their third month of being stranded approaches.