{"id":71773,"date":"2026-04-15T07:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/trump-says-iran-war-is-close-to-over-as-blockade-continues\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:55:06","slug":"trump-says-iran-war-is-close-to-over-as-blockade-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/trump-says-iran-war-is-close-to-over-as-blockade-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says Iran War is &#8216;Close to Over&#8217; as Blockade Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United States Central Command says the American blockade of Iranian ports in and around the Strait of Hormuz is now \u201cfully implemented\u201d as President Donald Trump indicates that a new round of ceasefire talks to end the war could begin by the end of the week. Trump also said that the war\u2019s aims are already mainly accomplished, saying, \u201cI view it as very close to over.\u201d NBC\u2019s Richard Engel reports for TODAY.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States Central Command says the American blockade of Iranian ports in and around the Strait of Hormuz is now \u201cfully implemented\u201d as President Donald Trump indicates that a new round of ceasefire talks to end the war could begin by the end of the week. Trump also said that the war\u2019s aims are already &#8230; <a title=\"Trump Says Iran War is &#8216;Close to Over&#8217; as Blockade Continues\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/trump-says-iran-war-is-close-to-over-as-blockade-continues\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump Says Iran War is &#8216;Close to Over&#8217; as Blockade Continues\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}