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Saturday, April 18, 2026
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Saturday, April 18, 2026
Trump: ‘Iran got a little cute’ by closing Hormuz again; ‘they can’t blackmail us’; talks ‘working out really well’
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US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, April 18, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
US President Donald Trump says Iran “got a little cute” by reimposing its closure on the Strait of Hormuz today but that Washington is in talks with them, and he will have information on the matter by the end of the day.
Briefing reporters in the White House, Trump says dialogue with Iran is “working out really well” despite today’s closure of the strait.
“We’re talking to them,” he insists. “We’ll have some information by the end of the day.”
Trump says Iran “got a little cute” in its decision to close the key waterway.
“They wanted to close up the strait again,” he says, insisting that “they can’t blackmail us.”
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