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US President Donald Trump walks toward reporters before answering questions prior to boarding Air Force One on April 10, 2026 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. President Trump is traveling to Charlottesville, Virginia. (photo credit: Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be very easy for the US Navy to exert complete control over what does and does not go up and down the Strait now,\u201d the article, from Just the News, claimed.<\/p>\n

After both the US and Iran reported a failure to reach a deal<\/a> during the weekend\u2019s ceasefire talks in Islamabad, US President Donald Trump on Sunday shared an article suggesting he would “out-blockade Iran\u2019s hold over the Strait of Hormuz.”<\/p>\n

The article, from Just the News, claimed that the president could repurpose the strategy he used against Venezuela, and that \u201cit would be very easy for the US Navy to exert complete control over what does and does not go up and down the Strait now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe leave here with a very simple proposal, a method of understanding that is our final and best offer,\u201d Vice President JD Vance<\/a> said after nearly 24 hours of negotiations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will see if the Iranians accept it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pakistan, the country currently leading the mediation efforts, released a statement expressing gratitude to both sides for their willingness to negotiate and urging them to uphold the ceasefire until a deal could be reached.<\/p>\n

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Cargo ships in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from northern Ras al-Khaimah, near the border with Oman\u2019s Musandam governance, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in United Arab Emirates, March 11, 2026. (credit: REUTERS\/STRINGER\/FILE PHOTO)<\/p>\n

Reports claim talks were tense, officials nearly came to blows<\/p>\n

As of Sunday morning, both the US and Iranian<\/a> delegations left the negotiation table unsatisfied, with Vance claiming the US had been \u201cquite flexible,\u201d and the Iranian team saying the negotiations had been \u201cconducted in an atmosphere of mistrust.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, Turkish media reported that negotiations surrounding certain key topics were so tense – namely, the management of the Strait of Hormuz – that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi and US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff nearly came to blows.<\/p>\n

Alongside nuclear disarmament, the Strait of Hormuz remains at the center of the US-Iran talks. US Navy ships reportedly crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday just as the negotiations kicked off, though Iran has denied the reports and threatened to attack any unauthorized ships in the strait.<\/p>\n

This comes after Trump said in a Saturday post to Truth Social that the United States has begun the process of clearing underwater mines from the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re now starting the process of clearing out the Strait of Hormuz as a favor to Countries all over the World, including China, Japan, South Korea, France, Germany, and many others,\u201d Trump stated, slamming the named nations for not having the \u201ccourage or will\u201d to do so themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump walks toward reporters before answering questions prior to boarding Air Force One on April…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[38,102,34,12288,101,736],"class_list":["post-63434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-donald-trump","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-joint-base-andrews","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-us-navy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116391047481000059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63434","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=63434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}