{"id":889207,"date":"2026-04-12T14:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/889207\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:34:14","slug":"us-navy-will-begin-strait-of-homuz-blockade-president-donald-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/889207\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy will begin Strait of Homuz blockade, President Donald Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">United States President Donald Trump says the US Navy will commence a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, after &#8220;Iran promised to open the Strait of Hormuz&#8221; and &#8220;knowingly failed to do so&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In his first comments since <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-04-12\/iran-us-war-ceasefire-peace-talks-jd-vance-negotiations\/106555976\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106555976\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">negotiations in Islamabad between the US and Iran<\/a> failed to reach an agreement, the US president said on social media platform Truth Social that Iran&#8217;s actions in the strait were &#8216;&#8221;world extortion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He also said the US Navy would begin &#8220;destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits (sic)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be blown to hell,&#8221; Mr Trump said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He said &#8220;other countries&#8221; would be involved in the blockade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-04-12\/iran-us-war-ceasefire-peace-talks-jd-vance-negotiations\/106555976\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Key takeaways from the stalled truce talks<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">After an absolute marathon of overnight negotiations and historic high-level talks between the United States and Iran, a deal to end the war that has thrown the Middle East and global energy supplies into chaos has not been reached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Trump added that he had instructed the navy to intercept ships in international waters that had paid a toll to Iran to transit the strait.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Addressing the talks in Islamabad, Mr Trump said the meeting &#8220;went well&#8221; but claimed that &#8220;Iran is unwilling to give up its nuclear ambitions&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Trump said Iran&#8217;s refusal to give up its nuclear program was the &#8220;only thing that matters&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;In many ways, the points that were agreed to are better than us continuing our military operations to conclusion, but all of those points don&#8217;t matter compared to allowing nuclear power to be in the hands of such volatile, difficult, unpredictable people,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Iran maintains its own effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, in which about a fifth of the global oil and LNG supplies pass through, with shipping traffic at a fraction of pre-war levels.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States President Donald Trump says the US Navy will commence a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[251204,32,774,22712,74677,49,978,659,771],"class_list":["post-889207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-blockage","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-peace-talks","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116392235306448781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}