{"id":602926,"date":"2026-04-14T07:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602926\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T07:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:20:17","slug":"iran-trolls-trump-on-social-media-after-he-launches-his-own-blockade-of-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602926\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran trolls Trump on social media after he launches his own blockade of the Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iranians walk past portraits of victims reportedly killed in a U.S.-Israeli airstrike on the residential building near which they are displayed, in Tehran, on Monday.-\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Iranian<\/a> government openly mocked Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> inability to resolve the global oil<\/a> shortage triggered by his failed attempt to overthrow the authoritarian theocracy in Tehran as the U.S. President imposed his own blockade Monday of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump, meanwhile, resorted to a mix of optimistic pronouncements and bellicose threats as he cast about for a way to end the war he started six weeks ago.<\/p>\n

On the President\u2019s orders, the blockade began Monday on Iranian ports in the Persian Gulf, an attempt to increase pressure on Tehran after the U.S. walked away from peace negotiations mediated by Pakistan this past weekend.<\/p>\n

The U.S. action, combined with Iran\u2019s weeks-long blockade of ships from Gulf Arab states, has effectively shut down all maritime traffic through the strait, threatening to further restrict the world\u2019s supplies of petroleum, natural gas and fertilizer.<\/p>\n

At the White House Monday, Mr. Trump insisted that Iran wants to \u201cmake a deal very badly, very badly\u201d but did not suggest when talks might resume.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been called this morning by the right people, the appropriate people, and they want to work a deal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Tony Keller: Iran won. Almost everyone else lost<\/a><\/p>\n

If Iran does not agree to a deal before the end of the ceasefire next week, Mr. Trump said, it \u201cwon\u2019t be pleasant for them.\u201d Earlier in the day on Truth Social, he said that if Iranian attack boats \u201ccome anywhere close to our BLOCKADE, they will be immediately ELIMINATED.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran fired back in the war of words by repeatedly needling the U.S. about the 30-per-cent jump in gasoline prices since the war began.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnjoy the current pump figures. With the so-called \u2018blockade,\u2019 soon you\u2019ll be nostalgic for $4\u2014$5 gas,\u201d wrote Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian parliament who led his country\u2019s delegation at the peace talks, on X, over a Google Maps display of prices at gas stations around Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

The Iranian embassy in Thailand reposted a fake campaign poster for the President labelled \u201cTrump $20.28 per gallon,\u201d riffing on both fossil fuel prices and Mr. Trump\u2019s musings about running for an unconstitutional third term in 2028.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlocking the Strait is our job, not yours,\u201d chimed in Tehran\u2019s diplomatic mission in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sought to make hay out of Mr. Trump\u2019s feud with Pope Leo XIV. Mr. Pezeshkian condemned Mr. Trump\u2019s insult of Leo \u2013 whom Mr. Trump accused of being \u201cWeak on Crime\u201d and \u201cWeak on Nuclear Weapons\u201d because the pontiff has defended the rights of immigrants and spoken out against war \u2013 and the U.S. President\u2019s posting of an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ ministering to a sick man. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe desecration of Jesus, the prophet of peace and brotherhood, is not acceptable to any free person,\u201d Mr. Pezeshkian wrote.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump deleted the image, which had also provoked a backlash among religious Americans. On Monday, he insisted that the portrayal of himself in white robes, holding a glowing orb of light, had not been intended to portray him as Christ but rather as a Red Cross doctor.<\/p>\n

Trump deletes AI image of himself as Jesus-like figure after widespread outrage<\/a><\/p>\n

The President\u2019s efforts to get other countries to join the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran also took a blow Monday as Britain and France announced unspecified plans for a \u201cpeaceful\u201d mission to reopen the strait. \u201cWe\u2019re not supporting the blockade,\u201d British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told the BBC.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump said Monday that the sticking point in talks was Iran\u2019s nuclear program. The U.S. has demanded that Tehran turn over all its enriched uranium and not enrich any more.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they will agree to it,\u201d he said. \u201cIf they don\u2019t agree, there\u2019s no deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. State Department official and Middle East expert, said it was a sign of how poorly the war has gone for Mr. Trump that his primary aim is now to reopen an international waterway that was open before the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the war stopped tomorrow, this would constitute a strategic defeat for the U.S. The Iranian regime has not only survived, it has become more hardline. You don\u2019t see any protests in the streets,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd Iran has now put its hand on the strait, which it didn\u2019t touch before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Iranians walk past portraits of victims reportedly killed in a U.S.-Israeli airstrike on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,43,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,41,39,42,40,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-602926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-headlines","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}