{"id":113672,"date":"2026-05-14T14:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/113672\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:11:08","slug":"japans-pm-uses-direct-line-to-tehran-as-eneos-tanker-clears-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/113672\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s PM uses direct line to Tehran as Eneos tanker clears Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idemitsu, Japan&#8217;s second-biggest oil refining group, said this week it expected Hormuz to reopen sometime between July and September, with benchmark Dubai oil prices declining to pre-war levels by the March 2027 end of the next fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>As Japanese refineries tap strategic stockpiles and ramp up alternative supplies from locations such as the US and the Caspian region, refinery runs started to normalise this month, surpassing 70 per cent for the first time since late March.<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese supertanker carrying Iraqi crude <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/shipping\/tankers\/long-stranded-chinese-tanker-clears-strait-of-hormuz-with-iraqi-crude\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sailed through the strait<\/a> on Wednesday, exiting the gulf just before a Beijing summit of US and Chinese leaders over the following two days.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi visited Beijing last week.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Katya Golubkova in Tokyo and Florence Tan in Singapore; Additional reporting by Yuka Obayashi, Tamiyuki Kihara and Kentaro Okasaka; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Clarence Fernandez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Idemitsu, Japan&#8217;s second-biggest oil refining group, said this week it expected Hormuz to reopen sometime between July and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[488,262,39343,39344,34,389,1738,1737,101,69,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-113672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-eneos-corporation","11":"tag-idemitsu-kosan","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-mena","15":"tag-north-america","16":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","17":"tag-tehran","18":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116573338585501942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113672","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=113672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}