US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says that Trump plans to seize control of the Strait of Hormuz and impose tolls if diplomatic efforts with Iran fail, Al Jazeera reports.

In an interview on CBS, he says he spent four-and-a-half hours with Trump on Friday and outlined what he described as the administration’s fallback strategy.

“If this deal fails, President [Donald] Trump is going to take the Strait of Hormuz over by force,” Graham said. “The United States will control the Strait of Hormuz, we’ll charge a fee for all those who go through to pay for the operation.”