{"id":248243,"date":"2026-08-13T23:44:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/248243\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T23:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:44:30","slug":"us-iran-showdown-escalates-over-strait-of-hormuz-as-oil-flows-increase-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/248243\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Iran showdown escalates over Strait of Hormuz as oil flows increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Former National Security Council director Rich Goldberg joins &#8216;America&#8217;s Newsroom&#8217; to discuss the U.S. naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz. President Donald Trump claims the U.S. has &#8216;total control&#8217; over the strait, while Energy Secretary Chris Wright highlights oil flows reaching 20 million barrels per day, demonstrating that Iran is losing its strategic leverage in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former National Security Council director Rich Goldberg joins &#8216;America&#8217;s Newsroom&#8217; to discuss the U.S. naval blockade in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[68614,5826,102,9673,10060,864,41237,101,54305],"class_list":["post-248243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-america39s-newsroom","tag-chris-wright","tag-hormuz","tag-national-security-council","tag-naval-blockade","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-rich-goldberg","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-total-control"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117090862050837853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248243","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=248243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}