{"id":46297,"date":"2026-04-21T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=46297"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:05:00","slug":"trump-says-us-will-not-lift-hormuz-blockade-until-deal-made-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/trump-says-us-will-not-lift-hormuz-blockade-until-deal-made-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US will not lift Hormuz blockade until deal made with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>BBC:<\/strong> The US will not lift its blockade on Iranian ports until a deal has been reached with Tehran, US President Donald Trump has said, amid continuing uncertainty over whether fresh talks to end the war will take place.<\/p>\n<p>The blockade, which began a week ago, is &#8220;absolutely destroying Iran&#8221;, Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social, adding his country was winning the conflict &#8220;by a lot&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come with the temporary US-Iran ceasefire set to end on Wednesday, but with no certainty over whether a second round of peace talks will go ahead in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>There is tightened security in Pakistan&#8217;s capital in anticipation of a meeting. But US Vice President JD Vance &#8211; set to lead the US delegation &#8211; has not yet left Washington, while Iran says it has not decided whether to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Since the blockade began, US forces have directed 27 vessels to turn around or return to an Iranian port, according to US Central Command (Centcom).<\/p>\n<p>The US also intercepted and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship for the first time in the conflict, after it tried to get through the blockade on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Videos shared by Centcom were said to show the ship being warned before troops repelled onto the vessel.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran deemed it an &#8220;act of piracy&#8221; and a violation of the fragile ceasefire between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has maintained its own blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route, for nearly two months &#8211; causing global energy prices to soar.<\/p>\n<p>It was briefly re-opened on Saturday but quickly closed again, following reports of vessels in or near the strait, including a tanker, being targeted by Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said Iran had &#8220;decided to fire bullets&#8221; and called it a &#8220;total violation&#8221; to the ceasefire agreement.\u00a0Iran said it would keep the route shut until the US stopped the blockade of its ports.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: The US will not lift its blockade on Iranian ports until a deal has been reached with Tehran, US President Donald Trump has said, amid continuing uncertainty over whether fresh talks to end the war will take place. The blockade, which began a week ago, is &#8220;absolutely destroying Iran&#8221;, Trump wrote on his social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46297","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\/46297"}],"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=46297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46299,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46297\/revisions\/46299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}