{"id":430111,"date":"2026-05-05T00:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/trump-iran-is-now-more-malleable-in-talks\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T00:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:40:26","slug":"trump-iran-is-now-more-malleable-in-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/trump-iran-is-now-more-malleable-in-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump:  Iran is now more malleable in talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Trump speaking to Fox News said Iran will be &#8216;blown off the face of the earth&#8217; if the Islamic republic attacks US ships guiding vessels through Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>A US official cited by Al Jazeera said that Project Freedom in the Strait of Hormuz is a defensive operation and we do not want to see escalation with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see how any of this is a long-term solution. At some point, US ships will have to leave the area.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Trump said Iran is now more malleable in talks.<\/p>\n<p>More now from Trump:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Iran has taken some shots at unrelated nations with respect to ship movement and Project Freedom, including a South Korean cargo ship<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps it&#8217;s time for South Korea to join the mission<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve shot down seven small boats, or as Iran likes to call them &#8216;fast&#8217; boats<\/li>\n<li>Other than South Korean ship, there has been, at this moment, no damage going through Strait<\/li>\n<li>Hegseth and Dan Caine will have a press conference tomorrow morning<\/li>\n<li>No damage going through Strait<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full post on Truth just now:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iran has taken some shots at unrelated Nations with respect to the Ship<br \/>\nMovement, PROJECT FREEDOM, including a South Korean Cargo Ship. Perhaps<br \/>\nit\u2019s time for South Korea to come and join the mission! We\u2019ve shot down<br \/>\nseven small Boats or, as they like to call them, \u201cfast\u201d Boats. It\u2019s all<br \/>\nthey have left. Other than the South Korean Ship, there has been, at<br \/>\nthis moment, no damage going through the Strait. Secretary of War Pete<br \/>\nHegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine, will have a<br \/>\n News Conference tomorrow morning. Thank you for your attention to this<br \/>\nmatter!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t sound like he&#8217;s in a rush to escalate.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump speaking to Fox News said Iran will be &#8216;blown off the face of the earth&#8217; if the Islamic republic attacks US ships guiding vessels through Strait of Hormuz. A US official cited by Al Jazeera said that Project Freedom in the Strait of Hormuz is a defensive operation and we do not want to [&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-430111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430111","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=430111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}