{"id":90426,"date":"2026-04-30T05:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/90426\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T05:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:11:24","slug":"trump-holds-talks-on-prolonged-iran-blockade-urges-tehran-to-reach-a-deal-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/90426\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump holds talks on prolonged Iran blockade, urges Tehran to reach a deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The sun rises behind tankers anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Qeshm Island, Iran, on April 18.Asghar Besharati\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Donald Trump discussed how to mitigate the \u200cimpact of a possible months-long U.S. blockade of Iran\u2019s ports with oil companies, a White House official said on Wednesday, as the U.S. renewed its calls for other nations to help open the Strait of Hormuz. Tuesday\u2019s talks with oil executives followed a deadlock in efforts to resolve the conflict, which has led the United States to try to squeeze Iran\u2019s oil exports with a naval blockade aimed at \u2060forcing it \u200bto reopen the Strait to shipping.<\/p>\n

As Washington and Tehran traded public threats, mediator Pakistan was trying to avoid escalation while the two sides exchange messages on a potential deal, a Pakistani source told Reuters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Trump has said Iran can call if it wants to talk and, in a post on Truth Social earlier on Wednesday, said Tehran \u201ccouldn\u2019t get its act together.\u201d<\/p>\n

He and the oil executives \u201cdiscussed the steps President Trump has taken to alleviate global oil markets and steps we could take to continue the current blockade for months if \u200bneeded and minimize impact on American consumers,\u201d the White House official said.<\/p>\n

Oil prices rose more than 6% on Wednesday, with \u200cthe Brent contract hitting a one-month high on prospects of a lengthy blockade.<\/p>\n

Trump says Iran is figuring out its leadership as talks hit an impasse<\/a><\/p>\n

As damage from the war batters Iran\u2019s economy, its leaders still think Trump will blink first<\/a><\/p>\n

The war has cost the U.S. military $25 billion so far, a senior Pentagon official said, providing the first official estimate of the price tag for the conflict.<\/p>\n

Iran has pledged to continue disrupting traffic through the Strait as long as it is threatened, which may mean more Middle East oil supply disruptions from a conflict that has killed thousands and brought global economic upheaval.<\/p>\n

With talks stalled, Trump is set to receive a briefing on Thursday on new plans for potential military action from the leader of the U.S. Central Command, Axios said.<\/p>\n

Tehran warned \u200con Wednesday of \u201cunprecedented military action\u201d \u200bagainst continued U.S. blockading of Iran-linked vessels. Trump has said \u200cIran cannot have a nuclear weapon, while Tehran says its nuclear ambitions are peaceful.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t know how to sign a non-nuclear deal. They\u2019d better get smart soon!\u201d Trump said in \u200bthe social media post, without explaining what such a deal would entail.<\/p>\n

The post featured a mock-up image \u2060of him wearing dark glasses and wielding a machinegun, captioned, \u201cNo more Mr. Nice Guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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People conduct their businesses around the traditional grand bazaar of Tehran, on March 29.Vahid Salemi\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

The United States is asking other countries to join a new international coalition that \u2060would enable ships to navigate the Strait of Hormuz after traffic through the waterway stalled, according to an internal State Dept cable seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n

The proposed coalition, dubbed the \u201cMaritime Freedom Construct\u201d, would share information, coordinate diplomatically and help enforce sanctions, \u200bthe cable showed.<\/p>\n

France, Britain and other countries have held talks on contributing to such a coalition but said they are only willing to help open the Strait, a chokepoint for global energy supplies, after hostilities cease.<\/p>\n

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Ships and boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, on Wednesday.Stringer\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Iran wants U.S. acknowledgment of its right to enrich uranium for what it says are peaceful, civilian purposes. It has a stockpile of about 440 kg of uranium enriched to 60%, which could be used for several nuclear weapons if further enriched.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s parliament speaker and top negotiator, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, said Trump was trying to divide Iranians and force Iran to surrender through the blockade.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe solution \u2060for confronting the enemy\u2019s new conspiracy is only one thing: maintaining unity, which has been the bane of all the enemy\u2019s conspiracies,\u201d Qalibaf said in an audio message on messaging app Telegram.<\/p>\n

Iran has executed at least 21 people since the start of the war with the United States and Israel two months ago, and arrested more than 4,000 on charges related to national security, U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

In a sign of the toll the war is taking on Iran\u2019s economy, its currency fell to a record low on Wednesday, the Iranian Students\u2019 News Agency said. Inflation stood at 65.8% for the month to April 20, the central bank said.<\/p>\n

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Vehicles drive past a giant billboard reading ‘The Strait of Hormuz remains closed’ at the Revolution Square in Tehran, on Tuesday.ATTA KENARE\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s latest offer for \u2060resolving the war, suspended since April 8 under a ceasefire deal, would set aside discussion of its nuclear program \u200buntil the conflict is formally ended and shipping issues resolved.<\/p>\n

That did not meet Trump\u2019s demand to tackle the nuclear issue at the outset.<\/p>\n

The Pakistani source said the United States had shared \u201cobservations\u201d on \u2060the Iranian proposal and it was now up to Iran to respond. \u201c(The) Iranians asked for time till the end of the week,\u201d the source told Reuters.<\/p>\n

U.S. intelligence agencies, tasked by senior administration officials, are studying how Iran would respond if Trump \u200cwere to declare a unilateral victory, two U.S. officials and a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.<\/p>\n

Tehran has largely blocked all shipping apart from its own from the Gulf through the Strait \u200bof Hormuz, since the U.S. and Israel began airstrikes on Iran on February 28. This month, the U.S. began blockading Iranian ships.<\/p>\n

Iran no longer has a single, undisputed clerical arbiter at the pinnacle of power since the strikes killed several senior political and military figures, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n

The elevation of Khamenei\u2019s wounded son, Mojtaba, to replace him has handed more power to hardline commanders of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iranian officials and analysts say.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Trump faces domestic pressure to end a \u200bwar for which he has given shifting rationales to a U.S. public struggling with surging gasoline prices.<\/p>\n

His approval rating fell to the lowest of his current term, a Reuters\/Ipsos poll showed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: The sun rises behind tankers anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[950,936,951,158,928,952,949,927,942,943,939,929,926,147,948,703,941,934,963,930,931,394,34,937,938,674,953,345,958,959,961,956,960,954,957,932,945,946,81,944,955,935,947,69,462,940,933,82,962],"class_list":{"0":"post-90426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-iran","31":"tag-life-news","32":"tag-lifestyle","33":"tag-local-news","34":"tag-manitoba","35":"tag-national-news","36":"tag-new-brunswick","37":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","38":"tag-northwest-territories","39":"tag-nova-scotia","40":"tag-nunavut","41":"tag-ontario","42":"tag-pei","43":"tag-photos","44":"tag-political-news","45":"tag-political-opinion","46":"tag-politics","47":"tag-politics-news","48":"tag-quebec","49":"tag-sports-news","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-tehran","52":"tag-travel","53":"tag-trudeau","54":"tag-us-news","55":"tag-world-news","56":"tag-yukon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90426","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=90426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}