With U.S set to impose naval blockade, Iran warns it will strike back

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Newspapers, including one featuring a cartoon of President Donald Trump drowning in the Strait of Hormuz with the headline “Marine Bluff,” on sale at a newsstand in Tehran on Monday. (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images)

LONDON — With a U.S. naval blockade taking effect on Monday, oil prices again surging past $100 a barrel and a fragile ceasefire set to expire in nine days, the United States and Iran began the week locked in a standoff after historic peace negotiations in Pakistan collapsed over the weekend.