{"id":58886,"date":"2026-04-22T08:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=58886"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:35:19","slug":"ron-paul-trump-blinks-but-hormuz-blockade-blocks-further-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/22\/ron-paul-trump-blinks-but-hormuz-blockade-blocks-further-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: Trump Blinks, But Hormuz Blockade Blocks Further Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RonPaulLibertyReport\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Once again, President Trump has put off re-starting the Iran war after his deadline passed last night. The impasse for renewed talks is his refusal to lift the embargo of Iranian ports, which Iran sees as an act of war. Meanwhile a new CNN report reveals just how depleted the US military stockpiles really are.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yekfpwncgz0?si=r8Z2LQMom3CFZM99\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Once again, President Trump has put off re-starting the Iran war after his deadline passed last night. The impasse for renewed talks is his refusal to lift the embargo of Iranian ports, which Iran sees as an act of war. Meanwhile a new CNN report reveals just how depleted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[767],"class_list":["post-58886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58891,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58886\/revisions\/58891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58886"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=58886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}