{"id":579870,"date":"2026-04-12T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579870\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:21:07","slug":"developing-blown-to-hell-trump-announces-us-blockade-of-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579870\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing | \u2018Blown to hell\u2019: Trump announces US blockade of Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has announced a sweeping naval operation targeting the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world\u2019s most <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3349534\/strait-hormuz-closed-again-end-iran-us-ceasefire?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">important oil transit chokepoints<\/a>, in a move that risks deepening a global crisis.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cEffective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d Trump said in a social media post on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He said that \u201cat some point, we will reach an \u2018ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO IN, ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO OUT\u2019 basis\u201d, adding that he had instructed the US Navy to \u201cseek and interdict\u201d every vessel in international waters that had paid a toll to Iran.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cNo one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas. We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits. Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was part of a barrage of statements issued after 21 hours of talks between the United States and Iran in Pakistan <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3349767\/bad-news-vance-says-no-agreement-reached-after-marathon-talks-iran?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ended without an agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The failure casts doubt over the future of a ceasefire that capped more than a month of intensifying conflict, triggered by joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has announced a sweeping naval operation targeting the Strait of Hormuz, one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,12,451,801,175828,3,16236,210369,452,453,65914],"class_list":["post-579870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-islamabad","tag-news","tag-pakistan","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-united-states-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579870","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=579870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}