{"id":315634,"date":"2026-05-04T12:10:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=315634"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:09:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:09:50","slug":"jeremy-scahill-on-stalled-u-s-iran-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/05\/jeremy-scahill-on-stalled-u-s-iran-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Scahill on Stalled U.S.-Iran Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>29 Apr 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ytAttributedStringHost ytAttributedStringWhiteSpacePreWrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"ytAttributedStringLinkInheritColor\" dir=\"auto\">Iran is saying it will enter into direct talks with the U.S. &#8220;when President Trump lifts what Iran considers to be the illegal military naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz,&#8221; says Drop Site News co-founder Jeremy Scahill. &#8220;Iran has maintained that it&#8217;s not shut down the strait, but that it&#8217;s just shut it down for any vessels that are linked to the U.S. war in any way.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Drop Site&#039;s Jeremy Scahill on Stalled U.S.-Iran Talks\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gaFyF0-eqCA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Jeremy Scahill\u00a0<strong>&#8211; <\/strong>Journalist at <\/em>Drop Site News, <em>co-founder of<\/em> The Intercept, <em>author of the books<\/em> Blackwater <em>and<\/em> Dirty Wars. <em>Reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, etc. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 Apr 2026 &#8211; Iran is saying it will enter into direct talks with the U.S. &#8220;when President Trump lifts what Iran considers to be the illegal military naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz,&#8221; says Jeremy Scahill. &#8220;Iran has maintained that it&#8217;s not shut down the strait, but that it&#8217;s just shut it down for any vessels that are linked to the U.S. war in any way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1473,742,3927,249,70,481],"class_list":["post-315634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-blockade","tag-iran","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-trump","tag-usa","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315635,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315634\/revisions\/315635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}