{
  "id": 1841394,
  "title": "Iran’s top security official ridicules Trump’s claims over Hormuz Strait",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/irans-top-security-official-ridicules-trumps-claims-over-hormuz-strait",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-19T01:08:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Middle East Eye",
    "slug": "middle-east-eye",
    "url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/irans-top-security-official-ridicules-trumps-claims-over-hormuz-strait"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Iran’s top security official ridicules Trump’s claims over Hormuz Strait Iran’s secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, has ridiculed US President Donald Trump after he declared the Strait of Hormuz as a US territory. \"The gap between America’s inability to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and its claim to own it is greater than the 7,000-mile [11,265km] distance between…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 5,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Tiada rundingan atau perbincangan berlangsung dengan Iran, kata Trump",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/tiada-rundingan-atau-perbincangan-berlangsung-dengan-iran-kata-trump",
        "published": "2026-08-19T00:08:35.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "CBS News",
        "title": "Trump says no talks with Iran planned as he posts map labeling Strait of Hormuz as U.S. territory",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/trump-says-no-talks-with-iran-planned-as-he-posts-map-labeling-strait",
        "published": "2026-08-19T00:30:16.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Daily Times",
        "title": "Trump says no talks with Iran underway or scheduled",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/trump-says-no-talks-with-iran-underway-or-scheduled",
        "published": "2026-08-19T01:58:26.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "Trump would escape his endless war with Iran in a food truck if he could",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/trump-would-escape-his-endless-war-with-iran-in-a-food-truck-if-he",
        "published": "2026-08-19T03:02:02.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}