{"id":155903,"date":"2026-06-11T16:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/155903\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:03:43","slug":"live-iran-says-its-closing-strait-of-hormuz-as-us-blasts-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/155903\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Iran says it&#8217;s closing Strait of Hormuz as US blasts targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow our blog above for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s top joint military command announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, including oil tankers and commercial ships, saying any vessel that will attempt passage will be shot at.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/597880\/us-launches-new-strikes-on-targets-in-iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">began a fresh round of strikes against multiple targets<\/a> overnight (local time) in Iran, the US military said, hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/597850\/trump-vows-attacks-on-iran-for-playing-us-over-peace-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump vowed new attacks if no peace deal is secured<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks are the latest development in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/597761\/us-launches-new-strikes-on-iran-after-helicopter-downed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an escalating exchange of strikes that threaten to reignite a full-scale war<\/a>, which was paused in early April when the two sides agreed to a fragile ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow our blog above for updates. Iran&#8217;s top joint military command announced the closure of the Strait of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[1982,1981,102,42,475,1980,1978,1979,101],"class_list":["post-155903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-hormuz","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116732323870456422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155903","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=155903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}