{"id":14102,"date":"2026-01-09T22:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/14102\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:21:16","slug":"warships-from-china-russia-and-iran-arrive-in-south-african-waters-for-naval-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/14102\/","title":{"rendered":"Warships from China, Russia and Iran arrive in South African waters for naval drills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships arrived in South African waters for naval drills off the coast of Cape Town as geopolitical tensions run high over the US intervention in Venezuela and its move to seize tankers carrying Venezuelan oil.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships arrived in South African waters for naval drills off the coast of Cape Town as geopolitical tensions run high over the US intervention in Venezuela and its move to seize tankers carrying Venezuelan oil.<\/p>\n<p>                    Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<br \/>\n                    \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n<p>        Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n<p>            Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships arrived in South African waters for naval drills off the coast of Cape&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[2065,9468,750,762,3412,176,3900,5887,584,131,4637],"class_list":{"0":"post-14102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-cape-town","9":"tag-china-government","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-government-policy","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-media-api-video","15":"tag-military-and-defense","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-south-africa","18":"tag-south-africa-government"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}