{"id":114927,"date":"2026-05-15T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/114927\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:00:08","slug":"iran-vp-we-will-not-give-up-the-strait-of-hormuz-at-any-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/114927\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran VP: \u2018We will not give up the Strait of Hormuz at any cost\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Iran\u2019s Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref has said the Strait of Hormuz belongs to Iran, stressing that the country will \u201cnot give it up at any cost\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Aref reiterated on Thursday that Iran will \u201cnever give up\u201d the strategic waterway, describing the Strait of Hormuz as Iran\u2019s \u201cproperty\u201d, as Tehran moved to facilitate the passage of Chinese vessels under Iranian management protocols for the narrow shipping route, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing Iran\u2019s English-language <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2026\/05\/14\/768631\/--We-will-not-give-up-the-Strait-of-Hormuz-at-any-cost---Iran%E2%80%99s-VP-Aref\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Press TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not give up the Strait of Hormuz at any cost,\u201d he said, emphasising that \u201cthe Strait of Hormuz belongs to us in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vice president added that the strategic waterway \u201chas always been our property\u201d, although Iran had not, in his words, made full use of what belonged to it for a period of time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref has said the Strait of Hormuz belongs to Iran, stressing that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[39657,102,34,101,256,23379,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-114927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-aref","9":"tag-hormuz","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","12":"tag-usa","13":"tag-vice-president","14":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116577777957773112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114927","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=114927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}