{"id":21231,"date":"2026-04-13T04:20:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-blockade-of-strait-of-hormuz-to-start-monday-morning-military-says\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:20:33","slug":"us-blockade-of-strait-of-hormuz-to-start-monday-morning-military-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-blockade-of-strait-of-hormuz-to-start-monday-morning-military-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US blockade of Strait of Hormuz to start Monday morning, military says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said Sunday it will begin blockading Iranian ports at 10 a.m. EDT on Monday, 5:30 p.m. in Iran, following posts earlier in the day from President Trump directing the U.S. military to &#8220;clean out&#8221; the Strait of Hormuz. The move follows 21 hours of unproductive peace talks in Pakistan on Saturday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5828300-centcom-blockade-strait-hormuz\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said Sunday it will begin blockading Iranian ports at 10 a.m. EDT on Monday, 5:30 p.m. in Iran, following posts earlier in the day from President Trump directing the U.S. military to &#8220;clean out&#8221; the Strait of Hormuz. The move follows 21 hours of unproductive peace talks in Pakistan on Saturday&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}