{"id":1542,"date":"2026-04-15T23:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/trump-says-us-to-blockade-ships-crossing-strait-of-hormuz\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:40:47","slug":"trump-says-us-to-blockade-ships-crossing-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/?p=1542&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says US to Blockade Ships Crossing Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has announced that the US Navy will immediately blockade the Strait of Hormuz, vowing to intercept ships that pay tolls to Iran. This declaration comes after peace talks in Islamabad reportedly failed to yield a resolution. Al Jazeera\u2019s James Bays is exploring the potential ramifications and what this escalation might entail in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>#StraitOfHormuz #USNavy #Iran #DonaldTrump #Blockade #MiddleEast #InternationalRelations #Geopolitics #HormuzCrisis #NavalOperations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has announced that the US Navy will immediately blockade the Strait of Hormuz, vowing to intercept ships that pay tolls to Iran. This declaration comes after peace talks in Islamabad reportedly failed to yield a resolution. Al Jazeera\u2019s James Bays is exploring the potential ramifications and what this escalation might entail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}