{"id":66017,"date":"2026-04-14T00:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/66017\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:20:19","slug":"u-s-begins-blockade-in-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/66017\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Begins Blockade in the Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: U.S. Begins Blockade in the Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Begins Blockade in the Strait of HormuzPresident Trump said the U.S. began its blockade in the Straight of Hormuz on Monday. The blockade comes as talks between American and Iranian negotiators ended without a breakthrough over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cRight now, we have a blockade. They\u2019re doing no business. If they were doing business with Iran, but if they weren\u2019t, no boats came out. So now, Iran is doing absolutely no business, and we\u2019re going to keep it that way very easily.\u201d \u201cThe impact of Iran\u2019s behavior in the Strait is causing untold economic damage. My guide from the start of this conflict has always been our national interest. That is why we stayed out of the war and why we continue to stay out of the war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A single large cargo ship is seen across an expanse of water, beneath a hazy gray sky. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/14int-iran-ledeall-1-tglz-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>President Trump said the U.S. began its blockade in the Straight of Hormuz on Monday. The blockade comes as talks between American and Iranian negotiators ended without a breakthrough over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>By Cynthia Silva<\/p>\n<p>April 13, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: U.S. Begins Blockade in the Strait of Hormuz transcript Back transcript U.S. Begins Blockade in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[38,102,34,101,153,5431,4056],"class_list":{"0":"post-66017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-hormuz","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-us-and-israeli-attack-on-iran","14":"tag-us-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116400201663712019","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66017","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=66017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}