{"id":169745,"date":"2026-06-20T21:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/169745\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T21:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:53:09","slug":"u-s-and-iran-offer-contradictory-statements-on-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/169745\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and Iran Offer Contradictory Statements on Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: U.S. and Iran Offer Contradictory Statements on Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>U.S. and Iran Offer Contradictory Statements on Strait of HormuzIran\u2019s military announced that it had closed the Strait of Hormuz around the same time on Saturday that Vice President JD Vance told Fox News the Trump administration had accomplished its goal of opening the strait.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">The straits are now open. The Iranian military is now destroyed. My understanding talking to Jared and Steve this morning is, things are going well. You know, it\u2019s always a delicate coordination dance and a diplomatic protocols.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two cargo ships on a body of water with a rocky mountain landscape in the background.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20mideast-blog-header-1210pm-htjw-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>Iran\u2019s military announced that it had closed the Strait of Hormuz around the same time on Saturday that Vice President JD Vance told Fox News the Trump administration had accomplished its goal of opening the strait.<\/p>\n<p>By Cynthia Silva<\/p>\n<p>June 20, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: U.S. and Iran Offer Contradictory Statements on Strait of Hormuz transcript Back transcript U.S. and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[38,105,34,1093,12722,179,12619,81,52558,101,9560,153,5431,2429,4056],"class_list":["post-169745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-iran","tag-j-d-vance","tag-journalismjournalistnews-media","tag-military","tag-peace-process","tag-politics","tag-presidential-election-of-2024","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tv","tag-us","tag-us-and-israeli-attack-on-iran","tag-us-foreign-policy","tag-us-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116784660662760824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169745","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=169745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}