{"id":123392,"date":"2026-05-20T17:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/123392\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:10:12","slug":"over-160-oil-tankers-stuck-in-gulf-as-iran-tightens-grip-on-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/123392\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 160 oil tankers stuck in Gulf as Iran tightens grip on Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/iran-tensions\/iran-war\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran war<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">US&#8217;s costly military operations fail to restore steady passage through key waterway<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20260520N oil tanker Hormuz\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A tanker carrying crude oil from the United Arab Emirates is believed to have transited the Strait of Hormuz with its Automatic Identification System transponder turned off. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>YUTA KOGA, JUNNOSUKE KOBARA and TAKEHIKO HAMA<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">CAIRO\/WASHINGTON\/DUBAI &#8212; More than 160 oil tankers carrying roughly 160 million barrels of oil and petroleum products remain in the Persian Gulf, data from Kpler shows, underscoring the tight control Iran maintains over the key chokepoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran war US&#8217;s costly military operations fail to restore steady passage through key waterway A tanker carrying crude&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[41922,41924,359,102,34,213,39,21281,1429,41923],"class_list":["post-123392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-41922","tag-grip","tag-gulf","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-oil","tag-persian-gulf","tag-stuck","tag-tankers","tag-tightens"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116608016422860187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123392","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=123392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}