{"id":45826,"date":"2026-04-13T08:49:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=45826"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:49:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:04:45","slug":"us-to-blockade-iran-after-talks-fail-to-yield-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/us-to-blockade-iran-after-talks-fail-to-yield-a-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"US to blockade Iran after talks fail to yield a deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Reuters : The U.S. military said it will begin a blockade of all maritime \u200btraffic entering and exiting Iranian ports and coastal areas on Monday after weekend talks failed to reach a deal to end the war with Iran, jeopardizing a \u200cfragile two-week ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>The talks in Islamabad, which ran from Saturday into early Sunday, were the first direct U.S.-Iranian meeting in more than a decade and the highest-level discussions since Iran&#8217;s 1979 Islamic Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The negotiations came days after a ceasefire began on Tuesday, aimed at ending six weeks of fighting that has killed thousands of people across the Gulf, throttled vital supplies of energy and sparked fears of a wider regional conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports will \u2060not be impeded, the U.S. military said. Additional information would be provided to commercial mariners through a formal notice prior to the start of the blockade, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters : The U.S. military said it will begin a blockade of all maritime \u200btraffic entering and exiting Iranian ports and coastal areas on Monday after weekend talks failed to reach a deal to end the war with Iran, jeopardizing a \u200cfragile two-week ceasefire. The talks in Islamabad, which ran from Saturday into early Sunday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45829,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45826\/revisions\/45829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}