{"id":13701,"date":"2026-03-11T03:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/13701\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T03:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:15:12","slug":"iran-war-trump-warns-against-mining-strait-of-hormuz-hegseth-vows-intense-us-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/13701\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war: Trump warns against mining Strait of Hormuz, Hegseth vows \u2018intense\u2019 US attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/donald-trump?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US President Donald Trump<\/a> warned Iran against laying mines the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday while Defence Secretary <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/article\/3336686\/senior-us-and-chinese-defence-officials-meet-military-military-dialogue-continues?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> pledged the \u201cmost intense day of strikes\u201d yet, as tensions over the critical shipping lane escalate amid soaring oil prices.While the US \u201chas no reports\u201d of Iranian operatives putting any mines in <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3345449\/what-crises-iran-panama-venezuela-and-greenland-have-common?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Hormuz Strait<\/a>, if they were placed and \u201cnot removed forthwith\u201d, the military consequences for Iran \u201cwill be at a level never seen before\u201d, Trump said in a social media post on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump added that the US is using the same technology and missile capabilities deployed against drug traffickers to \u201cpermanently eliminate\u201d any boat or ship attempting to mine the strait.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The US president\u2019s latest threats against Iran came after media reports on Tuesday saying that Iran had begun laying mines in the strait to disrupt shipping in the key waterway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A US B-1 bomber takes off from an airbase in Fairford, Britain on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/11\/b25140b2-bec9-4f04-b703-0cfa73d487a1_5b4901fd.jpg\" title=\"A US B-1 bomber takes off from an airbase in Fairford, Britain on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters\"\/>A US B-1 bomber takes off from an airbase in Fairford, Britain on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump also said on social media minutes later that he was \u201cpleased to report\u201d that within the last few hours, the US had \u201chit, and completely destroyed, 10 inactive mine laying boats and\/or ships, with more to follow\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tuesday will be the \u201cmost intense day of strikes\u201d inside Iran so far, Hegseth said earlier in the day, adding that Trump will ultimately decide the war\u2019s timeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump warned Iran against laying mines the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday while Defence Secretary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[799,1792,7360,38,359,1368,102,3358,34,94,6792,7361,772,101,69,6315],"class_list":["post-13701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-afghanistan","tag-americans","tag-bush","tag-donald-trump","tag-gulf","tag-hegseth","tag-hormuz","tag-indian-ocean","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-minab","tag-obama","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-united-states-of-america"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116208371121223544","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}