{"id":428285,"date":"2026-03-11T02:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/trump-we-have-no-reports-of-iran-placing-mines-in-the-hormuz-strait\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T02:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:50:10","slug":"trump-we-have-no-reports-of-iran-placing-mines-in-the-hormuz-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/trump-we-have-no-reports-of-iran-placing-mines-in-the-hormuz-strait-428285\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: We have no reports of Iran placing mines in the Hormuz Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Do you ever get the sense that someone is playing games?<\/p>\n<p>CNN reported just minutes ago that Iran has placed a few dozen mines in the Strait of Hormuz. They cited &#8220;according to two people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue&#8221;, who were unnamed but they were no doubt sourced (and not made up).<\/p>\n<p>Now Trump is saying there are no reports of mines?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no<br \/>\nreports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY! If for any<br \/>\nreason mines were placed, and they are not removed forthwith, the<br \/>\nMilitary consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before. If,<br \/>\non the other hand, they remove what may have been placed, it will be a<br \/>\ngiant step in the right direction! President DONALD J. TRUMP<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do I take from this: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That there actually aren&#8217;t mines and that CNN was misled for some reason?<\/li>\n<li>That no one is telling Trump what&#8217;s happening? <\/li>\n<li>That Trump&#8217;s comment about &#8220;a giant step in the right direction&#8221; re-iterates that he&#8217;s looking for an off-ramp?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The reporting on this war is such a mess and the Chris Wright fiasco today underscores it. <\/p>\n<p>WTI rose to $87 on the mine report but I think it will decline again on this.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever get the sense that someone is playing games? CNN reported just minutes ago that Iran has placed a few dozen mines in the Strait of Hormuz. They cited &#8220;according&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}