{"id":31693,"date":"2026-04-13T13:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31693"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:30:30","slug":"us-imposes-blockade-around-strait-of-hormuz-targeting-iranian-ports","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-imposes-blockade-around-strait-of-hormuz-targeting-iranian-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"US imposes blockade around Strait of Hormuz, targeting Iranian ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The United States (US) has announced a military blockade of Iranian ports and coastal waters around the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for 20% of global oil flows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The move follows peace talks between the US and Iran, in Islamabad, Pakistan, which ended without agreement over the weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">While the US insists that the ceasefire is holding, Iran says that the country changed terms, preventing a deal from materialising.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The weekend talks were the first direct US and Iran discussions in over a decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Despite no breakthrough, US President Donald Trump says that the talks went well with most points agreed to.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Iran&#8217;s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, however, fired back on social media, accusing the US of moving the goalposts and collapsing a near complete deal to end the six-week war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Trump responded by announcing a US military blockade of all maritime traffic into and out of Iranian ports and coastal waters, effective Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15146,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-31693","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"US has announced a military blockade of Iranian ports","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31694,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31693\/revisions\/31694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}