Donald Trump Tries to Squeeze Iran with a Naval Blockade
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:32.6 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. After U.S. Iran negotiations |
| 0:40.6 | breakdown, Donald Trump imposes a naval blockade against oil and other products going to or |
| 0:46.8 | from Iranian ports through the Strait of Hormuz. Can this succeed in getting Iran to agree to Trump's terms for a deal? Plus, voters in Hungary |
| 0:58.3 | deposed Victor Orban and his Fidesz party, heroes of the nationalist right and an ally of Vladimir Putin. |
| 1:07.0 | Where does his defeat? What does it mean for the future of national conservatism in the |
| 1:13.0 | West? Welcome to Potomac Watch. I'm Paul Giego, editor of the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:18.2 | I'm here with Elliot Kaufman and Joe Sternberg. Let's start with the Trump blockade, which began at 10 a.m. Monday, |
| 1:32.2 | Eastern U.S. time, enforced by the U.S. Navy. |
| 1:35.3 | Elliot, so how is this going to work? |
| 1:42.0 | Well, we're going to have to find out in real time, but U.S. Central Command has given us some more information here. |
| 1:44.7 | Essentially, ships going to or from Iranian ports or along that Iranian coastline will not be |
| 1:53.7 | allowed in or out. |
| 1:55.8 | But Central Command says other ships going from other Gulf nations transiting the Strait will be allowed through. |
| 2:05.6 | So it won't be a full blockade of the Strait. |
| 2:08.8 | It's more quarantining Iranian oil. |
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