{"id":57412,"date":"2026-05-08T05:23:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57412"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:23:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:23:55","slug":"trump-says-us-iran-ceasefire-still-in-place-after-exchange-of-fire-in-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57412","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US-Iran ceasefire still in place after exchange of fire in Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US President Donald Trump says a ceasefire is still in place between the US and Iran after both sides exchanged fire late on Thursday night. It was unclear who fired first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran&#8217;s top military command alleged the US had targeted an Iranian oil tanker and another vessel approaching the Strait of Hormuz and carried out &#8220;aerial attacks&#8221; on several coastal areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US, meanwhile, said it responded to Iranian attacks on US Navy guided-missile destroyers in the Strait with &#8220;self-defence strikes&#8221;. Trump said Iran &#8220;trifled with us today&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flare-up comes a day after Iran&#8217;s foreign ministry had said it was considering a US proposal to end the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: US President Donald Trump says a ceasefire is still in place between the US and Iran after both sides exchanged fire late on Thursday night. It was unclear who fired first. Iran&#8217;s top military command alleged the US had targeted an Iranian oil tanker and another vessel approaching the Strait of Hormuz and carried out &#8220;aerial attacks&#8221; on several coastal areas. The US, meanwhile, said it responded to Iranian attacks on US Navy guided-missile destroyers in the Strait with &#8220;self-defence strikes&#8221;. Trump said Iran &#8220;trifled with us today&#8221;. The flare-up comes a day after Iran&#8217;s foreign ministry had said&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57414,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57412\/revisions\/57414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}