{"id":6396,"date":"2026-05-03T10:19:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/?p=6396"},"modified":"2026-05-03T10:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:56:12","slug":"trump-describes-iranian-ships-interception-as-acting-like-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/trump-describes-iranian-ships-interception-as-acting-like-pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump describes interception of Iranian ships as acting like pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary introtext\">Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson stated that US President Donald Trump has openly admitted to piracy and criminal actions against international shipping.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tehran &#8211; IranView24<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-body\">\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p>On Saturday, Esmaeil Baqaei wrote in a post on X that Trump openly described the interception of Iranian ships as acting like pirates.<\/p>\n<p>Baqaei said, \u201cThe President of the United States has openly described the unlawful seizure of Iranian vessels as \u2018piracy,\u2019 brazenly boasting that \u2018we act like pirates.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was no verbal slip. It was a direct and damning admission of the criminal nature of their actions against international maritime navigation. The international community, UN Member States, and the UN Secretary-General must firmly reject any normalization of such blatant violations of international law.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson stated that US President Donald Trump has openly admitted to piracy and criminal actions against international shipping. Tehran &#8211; IranView24 On Saturday, Esmaeil Baqaei wrote in a post on X that Trump openly described the interception of Iranian ships as acting like pirates. Baqaei said, \u201cThe President of the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":6397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,39,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-foreign-policy","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396","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=6396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6400,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions\/6400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}