{"id":105047,"date":"2026-05-09T09:54:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/105047\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T09:54:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:54:29","slug":"mehr-news-agency-un-chief-urges-avoiding-further-escalation-in-hormuz-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/105047\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehr News Agency &#8211; UN chief urges avoiding further escalation in Hormuz Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The secretary-general is concerned by the reported recent exchange of fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the UN chief, said at a daily briefing.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary-general calls on all parties to fully abide by the ceasefire and refrain from any actions that could lead to renewed escalation or undermine ongoing diplomatic efforts, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks come amid continued hostilities around the strategic waterway, including overnight U.S. strikes on Iranian fishing and cargo vessels near Oman&#8217;s Khasab port that left six people missing and six wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Iran and the United States held one round of talks in Islamabad last month, but subsequent efforts to arrange further meetings have yet to yield a breakthrough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The secretary-general is concerned by the reported recent exchange of fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Farhan Haq,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[9101,102,1236,34,196,101,224],"class_list":{"0":"post-105047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-antonio-guterres","9":"tag-hormuz","10":"tag-hormuz-strait","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-iran-war","13":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","14":"tag-us-iran-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116544016434293180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}