{"id":253049,"date":"2026-04-13T10:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=253049"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:28:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:28:01","slug":"us-to-block-ships-entering-or-leaving-iran-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/253049\/","title":{"rendered":"US to block ships entering or leaving Iran ports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The US military said it will begin a blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports and coastal areas on Monday, after weekend talks failed to reach a deal to end the war with Iran, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The US Central Command said that the US blockade, starting at 10 a.m. ET on Monday, would 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.”<\/p>\n

Vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports will not be impeded, the US military said.<\/p>\n

The talks in Islamabad, which ran from Saturday into early Sunday, were the first direct US-Iranian meeting in more than a decade and the highest-level discussions since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. The negotiations came days after a ceasefire began on Tuesday, aimed at ending six weeks of fighting.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US military said it will begin a blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports and coastal areas on Monday, after weekend talks failed to reach a deal to end the war with Iran, Reuters writes. The US Central Command said that the US blockade, starting at 10 a.m. ET on Monday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":252824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,96,47,101,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en","category-society","category-economy","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253050,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253049\/revisions\/253050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}