{"id":247250,"date":"2026-08-13T08:22:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/247250\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T08:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:22:42","slug":"trump-hails-wall-of-steel-blockade-says-us-will-keep-control-of-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/247250\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump hails ‘wall of steel’ blockade, says US will keep control of Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States is in control of the strategic Strait of Hormuz and will “keep it.”<\/p>\n

“The U.S.A. has total control over the Strait of Hormuz. I THINK WE WILL KEEP IT!” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n

“Our Naval Blockade is being called, by everyone, ‘A WALL OF STEEL,’ and there is nothing Iran can do about it.”<\/p>\n

Trump has repeatedly claimed the United States controls the strait, which is vital for the flow of energy and other commodity shipping through the Middle East.<\/p>\n

However, Iran says it effectively controls much of the waterway and intends to impose a toll system in response to the US war launched by Trump on 28 February.<\/p>\n

Late on Tuesday, Trump told reporters: “We have total control over the Hormuz Strait right now. They don’t have control. We have total control. We own it.”<\/p>\n

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A screenshot of a post on US President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account, 12 August, 2026 – @realDonaldTrump<\/p>\n

US and Israeli forces have heavily bombed Iran’s military and killed a swathe of the country’s leadership so far in the nearly six month war, launched initially with goals including forcing Tehran to abandon its nuclear power programme and regime change.<\/p>\n

Iran has resisted with missile attacks on US bases in the region, Israel and targets in US-allied Gulf countries.<\/p>\n

Its most effective response has been to strike shipping in Hormuz, effectively snarling the trade route, rattling the world economy.<\/p>\n

With his political popularity sinking at home ahead of the November midterm congressional elections, Trump has backed off threats to escalate the war in search of a decisive victory.<\/p>\n

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Residents swim as cargo and commercial vessels are anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, 6 August, 2026 – AP Photo<\/p>\n

That leaves the war in a standoff.<\/p>\n

However, the Republican says that the United States is prepared to focus on blockading Iranian ports in a strategy that he told Axios was “low-keying.”<\/p>\n

“We are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money,” Trump told Axios on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States is in control of the strategic Strait of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[102,34,864,101,1690,54305],"class_list":["post-247250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-the-united-states","tag-total-control"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117087236781506907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247250","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=247250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}