{"id":12500,"date":"2026-07-29T09:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=12500"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:36:22","slug":"dem-rep-claims-lifting-iran-blockade-will-pressure-tehran-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/dem-rep-claims-lifting-iran-blockade-will-pressure-tehran-to-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Rep Claims Lifting Iran Blockade Will Pressure Tehran to Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The remarks came during an appearance on CNN News Central Tuesday, where <strong>Landsman<\/strong> fielded questions about White House policy toward Iran and the role of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in shaping American military decisions, according to <em>Breitbart News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by CNN host <strong>John Berman<\/strong> how President Trump might respond if the Israeli leader pressed him to resume military operations against Iran, Landsman suggested such pressure was unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio congressman asserted that Trump has already reinitiated military action independently, describing the president&#8217;s approach as solitary and lacking congressional authorization. He criticized what he characterized as an absence of strategic clarity from the administration.<\/p>\n<p>Landsman went on to argue that ending the U.S. blockade would create leverage against Iran&#8217;s own maritime restrictions. <em>If we end the blockade, it puts pressure on Iran, global pressure, to end the blockade<\/em>, he stated, referring to Iranian actions he believes could be reversed through international influence.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic lawmaker emphasized that Trump operates without formal backing from Congress and has not secured a vote authorizing continued military engagement. He placed responsibility squarely on the president to devise an exit strategy from the current conflict posture.<\/p>\n<p>Landsman&#8217;s comments reflect growing unease among some congressional Democrats regarding executive military authority and the scope of U.S. operations in the Middle East without legislative approval.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Democrat Greg Landsman suggested lifting the U.S. blockade on Iran would create international pressure on Tehran to reciprocate, while criticizing Trump for lacking congressional authorization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":12499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[173,2880,3875,10377,96,279,2980,277,209],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-12500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-cnn","tag-foreign-policy","tag-greg-landsman","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-ohio","tag-operation-in-iran","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12503,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500\/revisions\/12503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12500"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=12500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}