{"id":208292,"date":"2026-07-15T17:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/208292\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:44:07","slug":"us-reimposes-blockade-and-steps-up-strikes-as-iran-threatens-to-halt-mideast-energy-exports-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/208292\/","title":{"rendered":"US reimposes blockade and steps up strikes as Iran threatens to halt Mideast energy exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ZV7H6UT5URE6DE3PT7ARG4YDNE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">DUBAI, United Arab Emirates \u2014 The U.S. reimposed a naval blockade on Iran and intensified <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its airstrike campaign<\/a> Wednesday in retaliation for Tehran\u2019s attacks on ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The American strikes hit an Iranian army barracks, killed at least seven troops and wounded hundreds of people across the country, Iranian officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates \u2014 The U.S. reimposed a naval blockade on Iran and intensified its airstrike campaign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[328,197,34,196,768,9690,463,2081,69,200,82],"class_list":["post-208292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-business","tag-general-news","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-military-and-defense","tag-ml-iran-us","tag-religion","tag-strikes","tag-tehran","tag-war-and-unrest","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116925239452439863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208292","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=208292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}