{"id":5848,"date":"2026-04-18T10:59:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:29:42","slug":"iranian-navy-commander-describes-trumps-blockade-as-empty-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/iranian-navy-commander-describes-trumps-blockade-as-empty-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Navy Commander describes Trump’s blockade as empty words"},"content":{"rendered":"

Navy Commander Rear Admiral Shahram Irani stated that Trump \u201chas blockaded his friends,\u201d not Iran, adding that his blockade is just \u201cempty words,\u201d and that no one is listening to him.<\/p>\n

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Irani said, “To this day, we have not allowed enemy aircraft carrier strike groups and marines to enter the Sea of Oman.”\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Navy commander stressed that the U.S. and Israeli Naval Forces tried to slip through the Strait of Hormuz, using covert and deceptive methods, believing Iranian Forces would not detect them, but were taken off guard.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The remarks came hours after Iran gave commercial vessels conditional access to the Strait of Hormuz following a ceasefire in Lebanon.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Rear Admiral also dismissed Trump’s recent threats of a so-called \u201cnaval blockade\u201d against Iran as “hollow and ineffective”.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cNo one listens to Trump’s talk of a naval blockade \u2013 it’s just words,\u201d he asserted, adding with a sharp jab, \u201cTrump has imposed a naval blockade on his friends, not on us.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201d<\/span>Irani characterized the U.S. president\u2019s proposed blockade in the strategic waterway as an act of criminality, calling it \u201cbanditry and piracy.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Navy Commander Rear Admiral Shahram Irani stated that Trump \u201chas blockaded his friends,\u201d not Iran, adding that his blockade is just \u201cempty words,\u201d and that no one is listening to him. Tehran – IranView24 Irani said, “To this day, we have not allowed enemy aircraft carrier strike groups and marines to enter the Sea of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":5849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,41,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-defense-and-security","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5850,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions\/5850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}