New map reveals Iran's plan to surround the US as Strait of Hormuz enters new chaos

 As the U.S. implements a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz following tanked peace talks with Iran, the Islamic Republic is clapping back.

In an X post on Tuesday morning, the Iranian Consulate in Hyderabad, India, posted a map revealing plans for Iran to start a blockade of its own - a blockade of the blockade, of sorts.'

"You know what!! Iran will block the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz," the post says, with an explosion emoji and a laughing emoji. It comes as China humiliatingly defied Trump's blockade and gave him an alarming warning.

The map features a red line, indicating the position of the U.S. blockade, as well as two pink lines showing the locations of the newly proposed Iranian blockade - one directly in the strait, and the other at the end of the Gulf of Oman near the Arabian Sea.

It's not clear whether the blockade proposal is facetious.

The map posted by the Iranian Consulate comes after Trump threatened any Iranian ships that approach the U.S. blockade of the strait, vowing to have them "immediately ELIMINATED."

"Iran's Navy is laying at the bottom of the sea, completely obliterated - 158 ships. What we have not hit are their small number of, what they call, 'fast attack ships,' because we did not consider them much of a threat," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Monday.

"Warning: If any of these ships come anywhere close to our BLOCKADE, they will be immediately ELIMINATED, using the same system of kill that we use against the drug dealers on boats at Sea," he added. "It is quick and brutal. P.S. 98.2% of Drugs coming into the U.S. by Ocean or Sea have STOPPED! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT."

The standoff between the United States and Iran deepened Tuesday as the U.S. declared it had blockaded Iran's ports, Tehran threatened to strike targets across the region, and Pakistan said it was racing to bring the sides together for more talks.

Though last week's ceasefire appeared to hold, the showdown over the Strait of Hormuz risked reigniting hostilities and deepening the region-wide war's economic fallout.

Talks aimed at permanently ending the conflict - which began Feb. 28 with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran - failed to produce an agreement last weekend, though Pakistan has proposed hosting a second round in the coming days.

Two Pakistani officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the matter with the media, said that the first talks were part of an ongoing diplomatic process rather than a one-off effort.

Two U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic negotiations, said on Monday that discussions were still underway about a new round of talks. They said that the venue, timing and composition of the delegations hadn't been decided, but that talks could happen Thursday.

The war, now in its seventh week, has jolted markets and rattled the global economy as a great deal of shipping has been cut off and airstrikes have torn through military and civilian infrastructure across the region.

The fighting has killed at least 3,000 people in Iran, more than 2,000 in Lebanon, 23 in Israel and more than a dozen in Gulf Arab states. Thirteen U.S. service members have also been killed.