{"id":72145,"date":"2026-04-19T16:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/us-military-seized-iranian-flagged-container-ship-trump-says\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:55:42","slug":"us-military-seized-iranian-flagged-container-ship-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/us-military-seized-iranian-flagged-container-ship-trump-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US military seized Iranian-flagged container ship, Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump says cargo ship tried to get past US naval blockade near strait of Hormuz \u2018and it did not go well for them\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-military\">US military<\/a> took custody of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\">Iranian<\/a>-flagged container ship that attempted to get past an American blockade near the strait of Hormuz, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116433000897070863\">a social media post<\/a>, Trump said that an \u201cIranian-flagged cargo ship named TOUSKA\u201d tried to get past the US naval blockade, \u201cand it did not go well for them\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/19\/trump-us-seizes-iran-flagged-cargo-ship\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump says cargo ship tried to get past US naval blockade near strait of Hormuz \u2018and it did not go well for them\u2019 The US military took custody of an Iranian-flagged container ship that attempted to get past an American blockade near the strait of Hormuz, Donald Trump announced on Sunday. In a social media &#8230; <a title=\"US military seized Iranian-flagged container ship, Trump says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/us-military-seized-iranian-flagged-container-ship-trump-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US military seized Iranian-flagged container ship, Trump says\">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-72145","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\/72145","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=72145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}