{"id":260830,"date":"2026-08-23T05:17:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T05:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260830\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T05:17:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T05:17:51","slug":"trump-strait-of-hormuz-is-new-us-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260830\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Strait of Hormuz Is \u201cNew US Territory\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has described the Strait of Hormuz as \u201cnew US territory\u201d in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, alongside an image of a map of the strategic waterway.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said on Sunday, August 23, that the Strait of Hormuz is open and operational and that sea mines along the route have either been removed or detonated.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that no talks or negotiations are currently taking place between Washington and Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>The US president\u2019s remarks come as the Strait of Hormuz is one of the world\u2019s most important oil transit routes, and disagreements over the status of the waterway have become a major source of tension between the United States and Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has described the Strait of Hormuz as \u201cnew US territory\u201d in a post on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[102,34,6476,523,101,69,10717,392,153,1705],"class_list":["post-260830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-negotiations","tag-oil-transit","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-tensions","tag-trump","tag-us","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117143136044305493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260830","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=260830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}