{"id":585596,"date":"2026-04-18T13:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=807096"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:35:44","slug":"iran-closes-strait-of-hormuz-hours-after-trump-said-it-would-never-close-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/iran-closes-strait-of-hormuz-hours-after-trump-said-it-would-never-close-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz Hours After Trump Said It Would \u2018Never\u2019 Close Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/iran-closes-strait-of-hormuz-hour-after-trump-said-it-would-never-close-again-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz Hours After Trump Said It Would &#039;Never&#039; Close Again\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Iran\u2019s military reasserted control over the Strait of Hormuz on April 18, 2026, directly contradicting President Donald Trump\u2019s claims that the critical waterway was fully open and would \u201cnever\u201d close again. Key Takeaways: Iran re-imposed Strait of Hormuz controls on April 18, 2026, blaming the U.S. blockade and accusing Trump of making 7 false claims. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s military reasserted control over the Strait of Hormuz on April 18, 2026, directly contradicting President Donald Trump\u2019s claims that the critical waterway was fully open and would \u201cnever\u201d close again. Key Takeaways: Iran re-imposed Strait of Hormuz controls on April 18, 2026, blaming the U.S. blockade and accusing Trump of making 7 false claims. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":585597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-585596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}