{"id":387009,"date":"2026-04-11T17:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/387009\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:02:08","slug":"trump-says-u-s-has-begun-clearing-out-strait-of-hormuz-as-iran-peace-talks-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/387009\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says U.S. Has Begun \u2018Clearing Out\u2019 Strait of Hormuz As Iran Peace Talks Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201c[T]heir longtime \u2018Leaders\u2019 are no longer with us, praise be to Allah! The only thing they have going is the threat that a ship may \u2018bunk\u2019 into one of their <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/04\/05\/strait-of-hormuz-fuel-rationing-oil\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sea mines<\/a> which, by the way, all 28 of their mine dropper boats are also lying at the bottom of the sea,\u201d he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Maritime tracking data showed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinetraffic.com\/en\/ais\/details\/ships\/shipid:7771657\/mmsi:303966000\/vessel:US_GOV_VESSEL_112\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">at least one U.S. warship<\/a>, the USS Michael Murphy, transiting through the Strait on Saturday. A senior Iranian military official claimed the vessel turned back after receiving a warning that it would be attacked if it continued through the Strait, according to Iranian state television. A U.S. official denied that claim, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BarakRavid\/status\/2042966036119421032\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow\">Axios<\/a>, which also reported that \u201cseveral\u201d U.S. ships had passed through the Strait.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Trump\u2019s comments came as the U.S. and Iran began negotiations in Islamabad, Pakistan, aimed at ending the war that began with a surprise U.S.-Israeli attack involving hundreds of strikes on Feb. 28, and is now in its seventh week.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201c[T]heir longtime \u2018Leaders\u2019 are no longer with us, praise be to Allah! The only thing they have going&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,54,184,85,87,46,31801],"class_list":{"0":"post-387009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-news-desk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387009","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=387009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}