{"id":579747,"date":"2026-04-12T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579747\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:45:15","slug":"us-military-begins-clearing-strait-of-hormuz-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579747\/","title":{"rendered":"US military begins clearing Strait of Hormuz, Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> on Saturday posted on social media that the United States military<\/a> has started to clear the Strait of Hormuz, and that all of Iran\u2019s<\/a> minelaying ships have been sunk.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re now starting the process of clearing out the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d Trump<\/a> wrote in a Truth Social post, adding that \u201call 28\u201d of Iran\u2019s \u201cmine dropper boats are also lying at the bottom of the sea.\u201d <\/p>\n

Minutes before Trump\u2019s post, reports started to emerge about the presence of U.S. Navy<\/a> ships in the strait.<\/p>\n

An Axios journalist, citing an unnamed U.S. official, posted that \u201cseveral\u201d U.S. ships had crossed the strait on Saturday, though Iranian state TV soon after reported a denial from an official with Iran\u2019s military. <\/p>\n

Trump has repeatedly said that American forces have destroyed Iran\u2019s navy and air force while crippling its ballistic missile and nuclear programs. <\/p>\n

But fear of Iranian attacks on shipping over the past several weeks has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, a critical conduit for global oil supplies. Throttling the strait has disrupted global energy markets. <\/p>\n

U.S. gasoline prices have spiked even though most of the oil that flows through the waterway does not go to the United States. <\/p>\n

Representatives from the U.S. and Iran began talks hosted by Pakistan in Islamabad on Saturday amid a fragile ceasefire in the conflict. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday posted on social media that the United States military has started to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,34186,4426,26711,4424,29908,4427,29909,4423,801,29910,3,3310,210369,3479,21,19,22,20,25,57442,24],"class_list":["post-579747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-ceasefire","tag-circulated-air-force-times","tag-circulated-army-times","tag-circulated-defense-news","tag-circulated-marine-corps-times","tag-circulated-military-times","tag-circulated-navy-times","tag-dn-dnr","tag-iran","tag-military-times","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-military","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}