{"id":82091,"date":"2026-04-12T09:14:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82091"},"modified":"2026-04-12T09:14:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:14:54","slug":"us-will-block-ships-crossing-the-strait-of-hormuz-is-ready-to-end-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/us-will-block-ships-crossing-the-strait-of-hormuz-is-ready-to-end-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"US Will Block Ships Crossing The Strait Of Hormuz, Is Ready To \u2018End\u2019 Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> Associated Press:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump posted Sunday on social media that the U.S. Navy would \u201cimmediately\u201d begin a blockade to stop ships from entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>After U.S. officials ended peace talks with Iran in Pakistan, Trump sought to exert more strategic control over the waterway responsible for the transportation of 20% of global oil supplies \u2014 hoping to takeaway Iran\u2019s key source of economic leverage in the war. The president added that he has \u201calso instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1775985294\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"US Will Block Ships Crossing The Strait Of Hormuz, Is Ready To \u2018End\u2019 Iran\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Associated Press: President Donald Trump posted Sunday on social media that the U.S. Navy would \u201cimmediately\u201d begin a blockade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82092,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82091\/revisions\/82092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}