{"id":220447,"date":"2026-04-18T05:48:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=220447"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:48:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:48:01","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-president-renews-threat-to-iranian-power-plants-and-bridges-after-talks-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=220447","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: president renews threat to Iranian power plants and bridges after talks fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has said the US will begin blockading the strait of Hormuz in an attempt to take control of the strategic waterway. Key US politics stories from Sunday 12 April at a glanceDonald Trump has said the US will begin blockading the strait of Hormuz in an attempt to take control of the strategic waterway from Iran in the aftermath of failed peace negotiations between the countries in Pakistan.The US president also threatened to bomb Iran\u2019s water treatment facilities as well as its power plants and bridges&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/13\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-renews-threat-to-iranian-power-plants-and-bridges-after-talks-fail\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has said the US will begin blockading the strait of Hormuz in an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220447-trump-news-at-a-glance-president-renews-threat-to-iranian-power-plants-and-bridges-after-t69e31b13d572b.jpg",140,112,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220447-trump-news-at-a-glance-president-renews-threat-to-iranian-power-plants-and-bridges-after-t69e31b13d572b.jpg",140,112,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220447-trump-news-at-a-glance-president-renews-threat-to-iranian-power-plants-and-bridges-after-t69e31b13d572b.jpg",140,112,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220447-trump-news-at-a-glance-president-renews-threat-to-iranian-power-plants-and-bridges-after-t69e31b13d572b.jpg",140,112,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220447-trump-news-at-a-glance-president-renews-threat-to-iranian-power-plants-and-bridges-after-t69e31b13d572b.jpg",140,112,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220447-trump-news-at-a-glance-president-renews-threat-to-iranian-power-plants-and-bridges-after-t69e31b13d572b.jpg",140,112,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220447-trump-news-at-a-glance-president-renews-threat-to-iranian-power-plants-and-bridges-after-t69e31b13d572b.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220447-trump-news-at-a-glance-president-renews-threat-to-iranian-power-plants-and-bridges-after-t69e31b13d572b.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220447-trump-news-at-a-glance-president-renews-threat-to-iranian-power-plants-and-bridges-after-t69e31b13d572b.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220447-trump-news-at-a-glance-president-renews-threat-to-iranian-power-plants-and-bridges-after-t69e31b13d572b.jpg",140,112,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}