{"id":23278,"date":"2026-08-12T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=23278"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:45:34","slug":"iran-vows-to-close-hormuz-strait-until-us-lifts-sanctions-as-trump-rejects-tehrans-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=23278","title":{"rendered":"Iran vows to close Hormuz Strait until US lifts sanctions as Trump rejects Tehran&#8217;s demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--[--><!--[--><!----><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he follows the directions of the Secret Service and U.S. military when it comes to his security, addressing reports that he was moved between aircrafts as part of a security operation last month in Ankara reportedly prompted by an Iranian assassination threat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>\u201cWell, it&#8217;s only up to the Secret Service. I just follow what they&#8217;d like to do,\u201d Trump told reporters after traveling to Geneva, Ohio, for the Freedom 250 Patriot Games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>\u201cSo I go by the Secret Service and the military. They wanted me to go on a different flight, a different plane, equal safety,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>\u201cBut they wanted me to do it, so I do it. I do what they say.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>\u201cI guess there was a threat out there. I didn&#8217;t really ask too much about it. I get a lot of threats,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>The president also went on to say that any &#8220;consequential president has a lot of threats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>&#8220;Non consequential presidents don&#8217;t get threats,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>The Washington Post first reported that Trump secretly switched to a military jet after appearing to board the older Air Force One in Turkey after the NATO summit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p><em>Fox News&#8217; Emma Bussey contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--]--><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he follows the directions of the Secret Service and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}