{"id":93835,"date":"2026-05-02T05:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/93835\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T05:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:40:11","slug":"araqchi-mocks-trump-over-label-on-hormuz-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/93835\/","title":{"rendered":"Araqchi Mocks Trump over Label on Hormuz Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamtimes.com\/en\/news\/1277957\/araqchi-mocks-trump-over-label-on-hormuz-strait\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/n01277957-b.jpg\" alt=\"Araqchi Mocks Trump over Label on Hormuz Strait\" title=\"Araqchi Mocks Trump over Label on Hormuz Strait\" class=\"img-responsive\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Islam Times &#8211; Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi ridiculed US President Donald Trump for misrepresenting the Strait of Hormuz as the \u201cStrait of Trump\u201d, calling any attempt to rename the strategic waterway a \u201cterrible mistake.\u201dIn a post on his X account on the occasion of Iran\u2019s Persian Gulf Day on Thursday, Araqchi referred to the anniversary of the expulsion of Portuguese forces from the Strait of Hormuz by Iranians some 400 years ago and stressed the historical identity of the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian foreign minister reminded the US president that calling the Strait of Hormuz by any other name would amount to a serious error.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is Persian Gulf Day in Iran, marking our ancestors&#8217; expulsion of Portuguese from Strait of Hormuz 400 years ago,\u201d Araqchi said in his post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPOTUS uses the correct term \u2018Persian Gulf\u2019, not the Pentagon\u2019s fake version. But calling Hormuz anything else is indeed a \u2018terrible mistake\u2019,\u201d Araqchi added.&#13;\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Times &#8211; Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi ridiculed US President Donald Trump for misrepresenting the Strait of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[605,4101,15861,16835,621,33107,14433,2524,623,4099,102,361,598,33104,4100,33106,33110,33103,591,3852,7660,1372,33108,33105,1219,101,10721,33109,596,599,603,392,153,7617],"class_list":{"0":"post-93835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-a","9":"tag-abbas","10":"tag-any","11":"tag-araqchi","12":"tag-as","13":"tag-attempt","14":"tag-calling","15":"tag-donald","16":"tag-for","17":"tag-foreign","18":"tag-hormuz","19":"tag-iranian","20":"tag-islam","21":"tag-label","22":"tag-minister","23":"tag-misrepresenting","24":"tag-mistake","25":"tag-mocks","26":"tag-of","27":"tag-on","28":"tag-over","29":"tag-president","30":"tag-rename","31":"tag-ridiculed","32":"tag-strait","33":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","34":"tag-strategic","35":"tag-terrible","36":"tag-the","37":"tag-times","38":"tag-to","39":"tag-trump","40":"tag-us","41":"tag-waterway"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116503381531043033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93835","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=93835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}