{"id":606320,"date":"2026-04-14T13:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/606320\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:35:11","slug":"trumps-blockade-of-strait-of-hormuz-takes-effect-trump-deletes-image-of-himself-as-jesus-christ-tehran-wants-a-deal-very-badly-says-us-president-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/606320\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s blockade of Strait of Hormuz takes effect; Trump deletes image of himself as Jesus Christ; Tehran wants a deal \u2018very badly\u2019, says US president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oil price has fallen on signs Washington and Tehran may revive peace talks following the start of a US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, traders were tracking a China-linked vessel that might test the new curbs.<\/p>\n<p>Brent dropped below $US99 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate was near $US97. The two sides are in talks on holding another round of face-to-face negotiations for a longer-term ceasefire, according to people familiar with the matter. The goal is to arrange them before the expiration of a two-week pause in hostilities that was announced April 7, they said.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump said earlier that Tehran had reached out, telling reporters: \u201cWe\u2019ve been called this morning by the right people, the appropriate people, and they want to work a deal.\u201d Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, meanwhile, said that the country was prepared to continue peace talks solely within the framework of international law and regulations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5a17edfd115dda88d0c922930d27663fc9882005.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>US President Donald TrumpBloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The oil price has fallen on signs Washington and Tehran may revive peace talks following the start of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-606320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}