{"id":272000,"date":"2026-06-09T12:12:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=272000"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:29:49","slug":"trump-says-even-weeks-of-bombing-iran-would-not-reopen-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/272000\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says even weeks of bombing Iran would not reopen Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>US President Donald Trump said that if the United States were to bomb Iran for two to three weeks&mdash;which he says they can easily do if they want&mdash;Tehran would be left with nothing, and many people would be killed. However, he warned that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed for months.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also said that through negotiations, the sides could sign a document that, in his view, would be &ldquo;stronger than bombing.&rdquo; He added that the United States is very close to reaching an agreement with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a reporter&rsquo;s question about recent reciprocal strikes between Iran and Israel and whether he had asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop attacks on Iran, Trump said: &ldquo;No, I said do what&rsquo;s right, but I want you to stop as quickly as you can.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump said that if the United States were to bomb Iran for two to three weeks&mdash;which he says they can easily do if they want&mdash;Tehran would be left with nothing, and many people would be killed. However, he warned that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed for months. Trump also said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":271971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272000","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=272000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272001,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272000\/revisions\/272001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}