{"id":240173,"date":"2026-08-07T18:29:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/240173\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:29:53","slug":"iran-stakes-everything-on-controlling-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/240173\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Stakes Everything on Controlling the Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u e892ur80\">Iran\u2019s leadership has made a high-stakes calculation in its showdown with President <a data-type=\"person\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/topics\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trump<\/a>: maintaining control over the Strait of Hormuz is a nonnegotiable red line. <\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u e892ur80\">By asserting authority over a critical waterway for global crude-oil flows, Tehran is betting that its ability to inflict pain on the American economy is its best leverage to avoid future military action from the U.S. and Israel. With gasoline prices and inflation elevated, Tehran believes Trump will ultimately accept its terms ahead of fast-approaching <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/elections?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">midterm elections<\/a> that could determine the future of his presidency. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a92026 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s leadership has made a high-stakes calculation in its showdown with President Trump: maintaining control over the Strait&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[488,44317,13446,5955,24600,52904,52905,52906,47501,1303,154,911,897,5966,197,5953,102,1743,67095,67096,857,1737,213,5954,5975,5957,81,35934,58315,19456,101,5965,392,5967],"class_list":["post-240173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-asia","tag-barbara-leaf","tag-behnam-ben-taleblu","tag-developing-economies","tag-domestic-politics","tag-dragonfly-middle-east","tag-dragonfly-north-america","tag-dragonfly-world","tag-economic-news","tag-elections","tag-energy","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-gas","tag-gcapi","tag-general-news","tag-hard-commodities","tag-hormuz","tag-international-relations","tag-linkendrnrealtime-linkedarticle-dnco20260805001725","tag-linki2-wp-wsj-0003790317","tag-middle-east-and-north-africa","tag-north-america","tag-oil","tag-oil-gas","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-politics","tag-politics-international-relations","tag-risk-topics","tag-risk-topics-geopolitics","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-synd","tag-trump","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240173","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=240173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}