{"id":65780,"date":"2026-04-13T20:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/65780\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:27:13","slug":"opinion-trump-blockade-flips-strait-of-hormuz-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/65780\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Trump blockade flips Strait of Hormuz on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"L53UCWB2LFAHRGUV3F7OOQ6NQY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">What a difference a week makes. Last Tuesday, Donald Trump\u2019s critics were crowing that Iran had achieved a strategic victory in its war with the United States, leveraging control of the Strait of Hormuz to force the president to accept a ceasefire and return to the negotiating table. Now Trump has flipped the script \u2014 by using the ceasefire to seize control of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What a difference a week makes. Last Tuesday, Donald Trump\u2019s critics were crowing that Iran had achieved a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[102,888,101],"class_list":["post-65780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-hormuz","tag-partner-exclude","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116399285600073595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65780","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=65780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}