{"id":235095,"date":"2026-08-04T08:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T08:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/235095\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T08:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T08:12:45","slug":"following-tehrans-refusal-trump-demands-deal-or-total-surrender-to-lift-naval-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/235095\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Tehran&#8217;s refusal, Trump demands &#8216;deal, or total surrender&#8217; to lift naval blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/67d812cab51f8.jpeg\" alt=\"Carlos Dominguez\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" data-full-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/67d812cab51f8.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">President Donald Trump reacted harshly on Monday after the Iranian regime denied that it was negotiating with the United States. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117032272228248086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post<\/a> on Truth Social, the president stated that the U.S. military blockade will continue until Tehran agrees to a &#8220;Deal, or Total Surrender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" alt=\"In this October 18, 2015 US Navy handout photo,The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) pulls alongside the Indian Deepak-class fleet tanker INS Shakti (A 57) during a replenishment-at-sea exercise as a part of Exercise Malabar 2015. Malabar is a continuing series of complex, high-end war fighting exercises conducted to advance multi-national maritime relationships and mutual security. AFP PHOTO \/ HANDOUT  \/ US NAVY \/ MCS CHAD M. TRUDEAU           == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE \/ MANDATORY CREDIT: \" afp=\"\" photo=\"\" handout=\"\" us=\"\" navy=\"\" mcs=\"\" chad=\"\" m.=\"\" trudeau=\"\" no=\"\" marketing=\"\" advertising=\"\" campaigns=\"\" distributed=\"\" as=\"\" a=\"\" service=\"\" to=\"\" clients=\"=\" by=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/imagenes.voz.us\/files\/related_image\/uploads\/2025\/09\/02\/68b6c9757030d.jpeg\" data-full-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/68b6c9757030d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">Trump accused Iran of being &#8220;duplicitous&#8221; for openly claiming it is not in talks, despite what he said are actual contacts. &#8220;Whether Iran wants to admit it or not, we are, in fact, talking of a solution to a problem that they have caused, for decades,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">Trump&#8217;s response came after the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs asserted that the only talks it is holding are with Oman, focused on a possible scheme for shared control of the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for global energy trade.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" alt=\"Helic\u00f3ptero Sea Hawk despega del destructor USS Thomas Hudner en operaciones\" src=\"https:\/\/imagenes.voz.us\/files\/related_image\/uploads\/2026\/07\/17\/6a5962f92adc1.jpeg\" data-full-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a5962f92adc1.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Rhetorical standoff over control of the Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">President Trump had suspended a new round of airstrikes over the weekend, arguing that he had received requests from regional powers and from Tehran itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">Trump insisted that Iran had requested the talks\u2014&#8221;some would say &#8216;beg[ged]'&#8221;\u2014but is now engaging in its &#8220;usual blather&#8221; regarding control of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">According to the president, that strait &#8220;already completely controlled by the United States Navy and our &#8216;Blockade&#8217; or, as some say, &#8216;The United States Wall of Steel!&#8217;\u00a0Nothing gets through to Iran, unless we want it to, and nothing will get through, unless a Deal, or Total Surrender, is accomplished.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" alt=\"Un caza israel\u00ed que participa en los ataques a Ir\u00e1n.\" src=\"https:\/\/imagenes.voz.us\/files\/related_image\/uploads\/2025\/06\/19\/6853bc66ef67c.jpeg\" data-full-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785831165_692_6853bc66ef67c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump reacted harshly on Monday after the Iranian regime denied that it was negotiating with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[14085,34,5154,69,392],"class_list":["post-235095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-deal","tag-iran","tag-surrender","tag-tehran","tag-trump"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117036236711466829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235095","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=235095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}