{"id":254752,"date":"2026-08-18T17:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/254752\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T17:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:03:24","slug":"trump-posts-map-with-hormuz-as-new-us-territory-says-no-iran-talks-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/254752\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump posts map with Hormuz as \u2018new US territory\u2019, says no Iran talks planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump said that Tuesday that no talks with Iran were under way or scheduled, as he posted a map showing the Strait of Hormuz as a new American territory in a fresh jibe at Tehran.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump has been pressing his threat to claim sovereignty over the crucial energy waterway as the nearly six-month-old Iran war grinds on with little sign of resolution.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump\u2019s envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner had said on Monday that the United States and Iran were having \u201cvery positive and active conversations\u201d, but the president denied that was the case.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThere are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Naval Blockade remains in full force and effect,\u201d Trump wrote on social media on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe Hormuz Strait is open and operating. All water mines have been removed or detonated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A map depicting the Strait of Hormuz and titled \u201cNew US Territory\u201d was posted on US President Donald Trump\u2019s social media account on Tuesday. Image: Truth Social\/realDonaldTrump\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/71bcd123-43ef-42a8-8c18-cb4edcd45dcc_5fc3c9df.jpg\" title=\"A map depicting the Strait of Hormuz and titled \u201cNew US Territory\u201d was posted on US President Donald Trump\u2019s social media account on Tuesday. Image: Truth Social\/realDonaldTrump\"\/>A map depicting the Strait of Hormuz and titled \u201cNew US Territory\u201d was posted on US President Donald Trump\u2019s social media account on Tuesday. Image: Truth Social\/realDonaldTrump<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US sources said there had been \u201cpositive\u201d discussions with the Iranians, but added that Trump had decided to wait and asked his team not to engage until Iran was ready to make a deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said that Tuesday that no talks with Iran were under way or scheduled, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[949,467,1682,38,105,2254,2035,34,37,2018,5346,181,1286,271,101],"class_list":["post-254752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-canada","tag-congress","tag-cuba","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-gaza-strip","tag-greenland","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-jared-kushner","tag-mohammad-bagher-ghalibaf","tag-oman","tag-oval-office","tag-qatar","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117117597015100775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254752","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=254752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}