{"id":53286,"date":"2026-08-19T09:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=53286"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:10:28","slug":"trump-posts-map-labeling-strait-of-hormuz-as-us-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/trump-posts-map-labeling-strait-of-hormuz-as-us-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump posts map labeling Strait of Hormuz as US territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>President Trump posted an image of a map labeling the Strait of Hormuz as a U.S. territory early on Tuesday in an apparent effort to double down on his calls to annex the waterway.<\/p>\n<p>The map, which Trump posted on his Truth Social account, labels the waterway as a \u201cnew U.S. territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world\u2019s oil flows, is located in the territorial waters of Iran and Oman.<\/p>\n<p>Trump first floated the idea of annexing the Strait of Hormuz on Friday at a campaign-style event, telling attendees he would be declaring the waterway a U.S. territory \u201cpretty soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the comment in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump said he liked the idea and claimed the U.S. already controls the waterway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe control it with the blockade, and I like the idea of declaring it a territory,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can be a nuisance,\u201d he continued, referring to Iran. \u201cThey can put a mine in the water, and people don\u2019t like having mines hit their billion-dollar ships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re taking out millions of barrels of oil a week,\u201d he said of the Strait of Hormuz. \u201cThe oil prices are coming down, and they will continue to come down unless we decide to do something far drastic, more drastic than what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran has pushed back on Trump\u2019s claims and referred to his calls to annex the waterway as delusional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Strait of Hormuz has been Iranian, is Iranian, and will remain Iranian,\u201d Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said in a post on the social platform X that was translated from Persian to English. \u201cThis strait will only be closed and opened under Iran\u2019s command.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gharibabadi added that as long as the U.S. does \u201cnot accept the reality of defeat\u201d and indulges in its \u201cdelusions,\u201d Iran will continue to enforce its blockade of the crucial waterway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump posted an image of a map labeling the Strait of Hormuz as a U.S. territory early on Tuesday in an apparent effort to double down on his calls to annex the waterway. The map, which Trump posted on his Truth Social account, labels the waterway as a \u201cnew U.S. territory.\u201d The Strait of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53286","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\/53286"}],"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=53286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53288,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53286\/revisions\/53288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}