{"id":53113,"date":"2026-08-16T08:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T02:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=53113"},"modified":"2026-08-16T08:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T02:32:40","slug":"iran-defiant-on-strait-as-trump-tells-americans-to-accept-high-gasoline-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/iran-defiant-on-strait-as-trump-tells-americans-to-accept-high-gasoline-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran defiant on strait as Trump tells Americans to accept high gasoline prices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reuters :\u00a0 Iran called on the U.S. to \u200baccept defeat on Saturday, while President Donald Trump blasted Tehran as “very evil” and told Americans to prepare for continued high fuel prices as a result of the war.<\/p>\n

Progress towards \u200cpeace talks and oil tanker traffic through the strategic Strait of Hormuz remained halted, with no sign the warring parties were moving toward ending the conflict that the U.S. and Israel launched on February 28.<\/p>\n

“This strait will be opened and closed only under Iran’s command, and so long as you do not accept the reality of defeat and stop indulging in fantasies, Iran will continue to enforce the blockade,” Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi posted on X.<\/p>\n

Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Iran had not decided to resume talks with the U.S. He told Iranian news outlet Shahrara News in an interview published on \u200bSaturday that Washington must meet conditions on the strait in order for shipping to resume in the waterway that handled one-fifth of the world’s oil \u2060before the war.<\/p>\n

Trump urged Americans to accept slightly higher gasoline prices while the conflict continues.He told a political rally in Garden City, New York, on Friday that paying “a tiny little bit more for your gasoline” is \u200bworth the cost of ensuring “a very evil country” could not have a nuclear weapon, one of his stated rationales for the war.<\/p>\n

“After we finish defeating Iran … pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a \u200bterritory of the United States,” said Trump.<\/p>\n

Throughout the conflict, the president has alternated between threats of escalation and assertions that a peace deal is imminent.<\/p>\n

In a trend that has sparked inflation and disappointed voters, the average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline was about $4.08 on Friday, up 29% from a year earlier, according to the American Automobile Association.<\/p>\n

Trump, a Republican, campaigned for reelection on a promise to lower energy costs, and Democrats are seeking to make the war’s fallout \u200ban issue in November congressional elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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