{"id":614543,"date":"2026-04-18T06:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614543\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T06:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:48:14","slug":"iran-says-strait-of-hormuz-completely-open-us-maintains-blockade-on-iran-trump-says-us-will-collect-irans-uranium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614543\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says Strait of Hormuz completely open; US maintains blockade on Iran; Trump says US will collect Iran&#8217;s uranium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump&#8217;s speech at a Turning Point USA event was heavy with references to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>He repeated assurances that a deal was close, that Iran would give up their uranium, that the regime had agreed to not pursue a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n<p>He also again castigated NATO partners as &#8220;useless&#8221; for not offering aid, while also boasting the US had needed none.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/54da1d10-e791-4fe3-ab08-2b91802eaa16.jpeg\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Then his remarks took a turn at once unexpected and familiar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very soon this great strength will also bring about a day, 70 years in waiting. It&#8217;s called A New Dawn for Cuba,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to help them out with Cuba. We have a lot of great Cuban Americans, not too many people in this audience, I don&#8217;t think, but you go to Miami, we have people, Cuban Americans, people that were brutally treated, whose families were killed and brutalized, and now watch what happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump has frequently mentioned Cuba as a potential target for US intervention.<\/p>\n<p>The US kidnapping of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro stymied the flow of oil from that country to Havana, which heavily relied on those imports for essential power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump&#8217;s speech at a Turning Point USA event was heavy with references to Iran. He repeated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-614543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614543","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=614543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}