{"id":531255,"date":"2026-04-15T00:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531255\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T00:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:41:09","slug":"trump-hints-iran-talks-could-resume-this-week-as-us-maritime-blockade-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531255\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump hints Iran talks could resume this week as US maritime blockade continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iran has effectively shut the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial global waterway for oil and gas transport, since it came under attack from US and Israeli air strikes on 28 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than a dozen US warships and some 10,000 US military personnel are now enforcing the blockade against vessels of any country entering or leaving Iranian ports, starving Iran of a vital economic lifeline. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is aimed at putting pressure on Tehran by targeting two of the country&#8217;s major money sources: oil revenue and the significant tolls Iran demanded from ships for passage through the critical waterway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US Central Command (Centcom),  which has responsibility for US military activity in the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, said six merchant vessels had &#8220;complied with direction&#8221; from American forces to turn around and return to Iranian ports in the first 24 hours of the blockade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran has effectively shut the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial global waterway for oil and gas transport, since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-531255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}