{"data":{"prismicArticle":{"uid":"trump-doubles-down-on-hormuz-claim","tags":["politics"],"first_publication_date":"2026-08-18T17:09:37+0000","last_publication_date":"2026-08-18T17:09:37+0000","data":{"third_party_url":null,"title":{"text":"Trump Doubles Down on Hormuz Claim"},"rating":null,"datetime":"2026-08-18T15:30:00+0000","img":{"url":"https://images.prismic.io/prad/hRFWWjEhqzpyAGi5_straitofharmuz.JPG?auto=format,compress"},"embed":{"embed_url":null,"thumbnail_url":null,"author_url":null,"title":null},"content":{"raw":[{"text":"US President Donald Trump doubled down on his plan to take over the Strait of Hormuz, posting on Tuesday a map of the crucial artery for global energy supplies showing it as “New US Territory”. "},{"text":"After posting the map on Truth Social a day after the memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran imploded, he said: \"The Hormuz Strait is open and operating. All water mines have been removed or detonated.\""},{"text":"Trump, who is under domestic pressure because of the price rise attributed to the Hormuz crisis, added that the US naval blockade of Iranian ports \"remains in full force and effect\"."},{"text":"However, shipping has not resumed anywhere near normal levels, according to various agencies monitoring shipping in the Strait."},{"text":"Attacks on ships continued Tuesday with a British monitor of maritime incidents reporting that a “bulk carrier was struck by an unknown projectile whilst conducting a transit of the Strait of Hormuz”, resulting in damage to the vessel and crew casualties."},{"text":"The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency, which also reported a similar attack on Monday, said: \"Vessels are advised to transit with caution.\""},{"text":"Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi earlier called Trump seizing the Strait a \"fanciful delusion\" that cannot be accomplished by a \"tweet\"."},{"text":"Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said the Strait would not open till its conditions were met, according to Tasnim news agency."},{"text":"On Monday, Trump threatened to attack Oman, an ally, if it interferes with his plans for the Strait."},{"text":"\"If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the s--t out of them,\" he told an interviewer on Fox News. "},{"text":"Iran has claimed that it was close to finalising a deal with Oman on opening the Strait, with the route for entering it going on the Iranian side and exiting it, with each country controlling the routes on their sides."},{"text":"Such a deal would sideline the US, besides challenging a US takeover of the Strait."},{"text":"Besides Iran, Oman and the United Arab Emirates border the Strait, and a takeover of the 167-km-long waterway would have to agree to the US takeover, which would also run afoul of international law."},{"text":"Trump would also face military logistical problems in maintaining unilateral control of the strait."},{"text":"The MOU between the US and Iran signed with fanfare in June collapsed on Monday when its 60-day window ended, and both countries decided not to extend it."},{"text":"During this period, the two countries were to have allowed normal shipping; however, it did not work out when Iran attacked two ships last month, and the US retaliated by bombing Iran and blockading its ports."},{"text":"Since then, both countries have attacked ships, while Iran pounded targets in the Gulf and other countries, escalating tensions."},{"text":"During the 60-day period, Washington and Tehran were to have held negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme, which Trump wants ended and has said it was his top priority."},{"text":"Both sides have said that they were not talking."},{"text":"Trump said on Tuesday: \"There are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled.\""},{"text":"Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Spokesperson Brigadier General Hossein Mohebbi told Tasnim there were no talks taking place. 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