{"id":15759,"date":"2026-04-18T09:39:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=15759"},"modified":"2026-04-18T09:39:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:39:51","slug":"iran-says-strait-of-hormuz-will-close-again-amid-us-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=15759","title":{"rendered":"Iran says Strait of Hormuz will close again amid US blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"704\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4-2.jpg 704w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4-2-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The speaker of Iran\u2019s Parliament, Mohammad-Bagher Qalibaf, said Friday that Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz again amid the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports, contradicting President Trump, who said the strait was \u201copen for business\u201d earlier in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His remarks came as Trump was on stage delivering a speech in Arizona at a Turning Point USA event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith the continuation of the blockade, the Strait of Hormuz will not remain open,\u201d Qalibaf wrote in a post on social platform X, adding that passage through the strait will be \u201cconducted based on the \u2018designated route\u2019 and with Iranian authorization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhether the strait is open or closed and the regulations governing it will be determined by the field, not by social media,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. and Iranian officials have been going at it on social media platforms since the start of the war on everything from making major globally impacting announcements to trolling each other with AI memes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qalibaf in his Friday evening post said that \u201cmedia warfare and engineering public opinion are an important part of the war\u201d and that Iran \u201cis not affected by those tricks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian official\u2019s comments come as Trump was speaking on stage at a Turning Point USA event in Phoenix on Friday after he announced hours earlier that Iran had said the Strait of Hormuz was \u201copen for business\u201d but that the U.S. blockade would remain in effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s announcement followed Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announcing that the Strait of Hormuz was open \u201cfor all commercial vessels \u2026 for the remaining period of ceasefire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stock market rallied in response to the news, while oil prices dropped 12 percent following the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the Fars News Agency, an Iranian state news outlet, questioned Araghchi\u2019s post, characterizing it as an \u201cunexpected tweet about the liberation of the Strait of Hormuz, and following Trump\u2019s subsequent nervous saber-rattling, Iranian society has been plunged into an atmosphere of confusion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump made his part of the announcement in a series of posts on Truth Social before doing several phone interviews with reporters. The president said during a phone interview with Bloomberg that Iran agreed to an \u201cunlimited\u201d suspension of its nuclear program, but the Iranians haven\u2019t weighed in on that at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In one of the Truth Social posts, Trump claimed that Iran has agreed to hand over its \u201cnuclear dust,\u201d an apparent reference to its enriched uranium. Trump said Israel would not be bombing Lebanon going forward, proclaiming: \u201cEnough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The speaker of Iran\u2019s Parliament, Mohammad-Bagher Qalibaf, said Friday that Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz again amid the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports, contradicting President Trump, who said the strait was \u201copen for business\u201d earlier in the day. 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