{"id":702268,"date":"2026-05-29T20:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/702268\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:09:14","slug":"trump-says-u-s-blockade-on-strait-of-hormuz-will-now-be-lifted-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/702268\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says U.S. blockade on Strait of Hormuz \u2018will now be lifted\u2019 &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> says the U.S. blockade on the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/strait-of-hormuz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a> \u201cwill now be lifted\u201d after a proposed agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> has been reached.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The agreement described by Trump assumes Iran must meet the terms set by the U.S. This includes Iran allowing for safe passage of all marine traffic through the narrow shipping channel in the Persian Gulf region.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran must agree that they will never have a Nuclear Weapon or Bomb,\u201d Trump said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShips caught in the Strait due to our amazing and unprecedented Naval Blockade, which will now be lifted, may start the process of \u2018heading home!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Strait of Hormuz has been a focal point of the Middle East conflict since fighting began at the end of February. The choke point sees about a fifth of the world\u2019s crude oil supply, in addition to fertilizer, natural gas and other resources vital to global economies \u2014 including Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump says the U.S. blockade on the Strait of Hormuz \u201cwill now be lifted\u201d after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,1849,1376,43,5897,44,172000,41,39,42,40,2845,3275],"class_list":["post-702268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-canada","tag-consumer","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-u-s-news","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702268","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=702268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}