{"id":90678,"date":"2026-04-30T08:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/90678\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:45:26","slug":"trump-says-iran-will-cry-uncle-to-open-genius-hormuz-blockade-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/90678\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Iran will \u2018cry uncle\u2019 to open \u2018genius\u2019 Hormuz blockade | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a> told reporters on Wednesday (29 April) that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> \u201cwill have to cry uncle\u201d to reopen the blockade of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/strait-of-hormuz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/oval-office\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oval Office<\/a>, talking about the blockade of Strait of Hormuz, Trump said, \u201c\u200aWell, the blockade is genius. Okay. The blockade has been a hundred percent foolproof. \u200aIt shows how good our Navy is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump still didn\u2019t provide a clear timeline as to when the Strati will be opened. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u200aWe&#8217;ve got an amazing military now we now they have to cry uncle. That&#8217;s all they have to do. Just say, we give up\u201d he said, adding that Iran\u2019s economy \u201cis dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about his recent phone call with Putin, he also said he sees Iran and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ukraine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine<\/a> war on a \u201c\u200asimilar timetable.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump told reporters on Wednesday (29 April) that Iran \u201cwill have to cry uncle\u201d to reopen the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31812,31805,31809,31803,13360,31807,31806,5084,34,31811,3345,28834,201,31798,31799,31808,2576,31801,1218,1023,31800,9796,31802,31804,28831,31810],"class_list":{"0":"post-90678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-antonin-kinsky","9":"tag-atletico-madrid","10":"tag-bestpix","11":"tag-club-soccer","12":"tag-color-image","13":"tag-eight-finals","14":"tag-first-leg","15":"tag-horizontal","16":"tag-iran","17":"tag-julian-alvarez","18":"tag-madrid","19":"tag-match-sport","20":"tag-photography","21":"tag-sadness","22":"tag-scoring","23":"tag-scoring-a-goal","24":"tag-soccer","25":"tag-soccer-player","26":"tag-spain","27":"tag-sport","28":"tag-sports-team","29":"tag-stadium","30":"tag-tottenham-hotspur-f-c","31":"tag-uefa-champions-league","32":"tag-union-of-european-football-associations","33":"tag-wanda-metropolitano"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116492784299595246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90678","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=90678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}