{"id":255060,"date":"2026-08-18T20:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/255060\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:30:09","slug":"trump-shares-map-with-new-strait-of-hormuz-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/255060\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Shares Map With New Strait of Hormuz Label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        President Trump isn&#8217;t easing off his annexation talk. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/6034751-trump-posts-map-labeling-strait-of-hormuz-as-us-territory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hill<\/a> reports that early Tuesday he posted an image on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117116198386080523\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Truth Social<\/a> showing a map of a portion of the Middle East with a large circle around the Strait of Hormuz; the map&#8217;s header reads &#8220;New U.S. Territory.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/International\/live-updates\/iran-live-updates-tehran-adopt-offensive-aspect-irgc?id=135700072&amp;entryId=135733144\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News<\/a> notes the map was &#8220;presented without additional comment.&#8221; The former president voiced the idea on Friday, saying, &#8220;After we finish defeating Iran &#8230; I&#8217;ll be declaring the Hormuz strait a territory of the United States.&#8221; Reporters who questioned him about it on Monday got this answer: &#8220;We control it with the blockade, and I like the idea of declaring it a territory.&#8221; Iran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/394707\/iran-dismisses-trump-plan-as-fanciful-delusion.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has dismissed Trump&#8217;s comments<\/a> as &#8220;fanciful delusions.&#8221;&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; President Trump isn&#8217;t easing off his annexation talk. The Hill reports that early Tuesday he posted an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[102,196,722,101],"class_list":["post-255060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-hormuz","tag-iran-war","tag-president-trump","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255060","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=255060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}