{"id":614397,"date":"2026-04-18T05:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614397\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:02:09","slug":"strait-of-hormuz-completely-open-iran-says-stock-market-continues-its-record-setting-rally-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614397\/","title":{"rendered":"Strait of Hormuz \u2018completely open\u2019, Iran says; Stock market continues its record-setting rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has just spoken to reporters on Air Force One, concluding his remarks with a threat to \u201cstart dropping bombs again\u201d if Iran blockaded the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe I won\u2019t extend it, but the blockade is going to remain. But maybe I won\u2019t extend it, so you\u2019ll have a blockade, and unfortunately we\u2019ll have to start dropping bombs again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said the US would claim Iran\u2019s \u201cnuclear dust\u201d after a deal was signed with Iran, but did not elaborate when asked how this would be achieved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ended eight wars, and it may be a little early to say this, but if we add Iran and Lebanon that will be 10 wars ended and many, many millions of lives saved,\u201d Trump claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has just spoken to reporters on Air Force One, concluding his remarks with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-614397","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\/614397","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=614397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}