{"id":77030,"date":"2026-04-13T14:43:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/13\/iran-war-live-news-ceasefire-peace-talks-us-trump-strait-hormuz-blockade-middle-east-crisis-latest-updates"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:30:49","slug":"middle-east-crisis-live-iran-warns-us-blockade-of-strait-of-hormuz-would-violate-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77030","title":{"rendered":"Top US Senate Democrats again try for war powers resolution \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now closed \u2013 our live coverage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/14\/middle-east-crisis-live-hezbollah-urges-lebanon-to-pull-out-of-talks-with-israel-blockade-of-strait-of-hormuz-begins\">continues here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Circling back to Donald Trump\u2019s coming naval blockade, the US military said it would block all Iranian Gulf ports on Monday at 10am ET on Monday (5.30pm in Iran and 1400 GMT)<\/strong>, effectively seizing control of maritime traffic in the strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman,\u201d US Central Command said on X.<\/p>\n<p>This is like a game of chicken. It\u2019s who caves first. The Iranian regime is hoping that Trump will cave. Today, he showed he\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/13\/iran-war-live-news-ceasefire-peace-talks-us-trump-strait-hormuz-blockade-middle-east-crisis-latest-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now closed \u2013 our live coverage continues hereCircling back to Donald Trump\u2019s coming naval blockade, the US military said it would block all Iranian Gulf ports on Monday at 10am ET on Monday (5.30pm in Iran and 1400 GMT), effectively seizin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,3041,448,1005,869,212,60,3511,554,45,3510],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-hezbollah","category-iran","category-israel","category-lebanon","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-strait-of-hormuz","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77030"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77037,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77030\/revisions\/77037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}