{"id":385871,"date":"2026-04-11T00:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/385871\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T00:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:17:08","slug":"trump-threatens-iran-as-vance-heads-to-pakistan-for-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/385871\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens Iran as Vance heads to Pakistan for talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up pressure on Iran as Vice President JD Vance traveled to Pakistan for talks to end the war, with Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon and the Strait of Hormuz\u2019s effective closure looming over diplomatic efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Trump posted on social media Friday that Tehran\u2019s only leverage is &#8220;short term extortion of the world by using International Waterways\u201d \u2014 a reference to Hormuz, a critical shipping lane for oil and natural gas that remains largely shut, raising global energy prices. Trump declared that the &#8220;Iranians don\u2019t seem to realize they have no cards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the two-week ceasefire was broadly holding across the Middle East, the situation with the strait and continued fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon threatened to complicate negotiations due to begin over the weekend in Islamabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up pressure on Iran as Vice President JD Vance traveled to Pakistan for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,42,87,46,47,43,5839,338,40,38,41,39,4374,119453],"class_list":{"0":"post-385871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-oil","15":"tag-pakistan","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-u-s","21":"tag-u-s-military"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}