Iran warns it will block Gulf and Red Sea
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Iran warns that it will block trade through the Red Sea as well as the Gulf and the Sea of Oman, if the United States continues its own blockade of Iranian ports and shipping. The head of the Iranian military command centre says the US blockade is a prelude to a violation of the ceasefire. Also: a day after peace talks in Washington between Israel and Lebanon, the Iranian backed group, Hezbollah, and Israel exchange fire again. On the third anniversary of the civil war in Sudan, an international donors conference takes place in Berlin. At least four people are killed in a school shooting in southern Turkey. A new German online search engine is helping people to discover if their ancestors were members of the Nazi Party. President Trump criticises Pope Leo again following his condemnation of the war in Iran as well as US immigration policies. Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, meets the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, in Beijing. Speaking after the meeting, Mr Xi praised the close cooperation between Russia and China. And, ahead of the men's football World Cup, Brazil's first official tartan is formally unveiled in Scotland, designed by a six-year-old Scottish schoolgirl.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Alex Ritson, and at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday the 15th of April, these are our main stories. |
| 0:19.4 | Iran has warned that it will respond in kind to the US |
| 0:22.8 | blockade if this continues. Officials in southern Turkey say at least four people have been |
| 0:28.4 | killed in a shooting at a secondary school. China's Xi Jinping calls relations with Moscow precious |
| 0:34.1 | as he meets Russia's foreign minister. |
| 0:40.2 | Also in this podcast, |
| 0:42.6 | I've already found two close relatives, |
| 0:46.4 | which destroys the myth that no one in our family was involved. |
| 0:51.0 | To have my perspective changed at the age of 71 is a bitter shock. |
| 0:55.8 | A search engine which tells Germans if members of their family were Nazis. |
| 1:05.5 | Iran has warned that it will block trade through the Red Sea as well as the Gulf and the Sea of Amman if the United States continues its own blockade of Iranian ports and shipping. |
| 1:10.7 | Iran has no coastline |
| 1:12.2 | along the Red Sea, although it supports coastal-based Houthi groups in Yemen. The US military says |
| 1:19.5 | it is completely halted Iran's sea trade, though it's hard to confirm this. Meanwhile, on the |
| 1:24.7 | diplomatic front, Tehran says it's still talking to Washington following |
| 1:28.7 | last weekend's failed talks in Pakistan. As we record this podcast, Iran has said a Pakistani |
| 1:34.3 | delegation is expected to arrive in Tehran for talks. On Fox News, President Trump said the war |
| 1:40.7 | was nearing an end, and he defended starting it in the first place. |
| 1:44.9 | I had to divert, because if I didn't do that, right now you would have Iran with a nuclear weapon, |
| 1:51.5 | and if they had a nuclear weapon, you would be calling everybody over there, sir, and you don't want to do that. |
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