{"id":72551,"date":"2026-04-23T23:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/trump-claims-us-has-total-control-over-strait-of-hormuz-after-iran-seizes-two-container-ships\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:04:07","slug":"trump-claims-us-has-total-control-over-strait-of-hormuz-after-iran-seizes-two-container-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/trump-claims-us-has-total-control-over-strait-of-hormuz-after-iran-seizes-two-container-ships\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims US has total control over strait of Hormuz after Iran seizes two container ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president says Tehran hobbled by infighting as Pentagon reportedly briefs mine clearance may take six months<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/23\/middle-east-crisis-live-news-us-iran-ceasefire-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-ships-latest-updates\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump has again said that the US has \u201ctotal control over the strait of Hormuz\u201d, adding that Iran\u2019s leadership was so hobbled by infighting that it was unclear who was in charge.<\/p>\n<p>But the US president\u2019s claim seemed questionable in the face of the seizure of two container ships by Iranian commandos and a US report warning it could take six months to clear the strait of mines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/23\/trump-claims-us-has-total-control-over-strait-of-hormuz-as-iran-seizes-two-container-ships\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president says Tehran hobbled by infighting as Pentagon reportedly briefs mine clearance may take six months Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates Donald Trump has again said that the US has \u201ctotal control over the strait of Hormuz\u201d, adding that Iran\u2019s leadership was so hobbled by infighting that it was unclear who was in &#8230; <a title=\"Trump claims US has total control over strait of Hormuz after Iran seizes two container ships\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/trump-claims-us-has-total-control-over-strait-of-hormuz-after-iran-seizes-two-container-ships\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump claims US has total control over strait of Hormuz after Iran seizes two container ships\">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-72551","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\/72551","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=72551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}