{"id":279757,"date":"2026-09-06T01:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/279757\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T01:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:31:09","slug":"us-iran-ship-attacks-escalate-battle-for-control-of-strait-of-hormuz-threaten-global-oil-flows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/279757\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran Ship Attacks Escalate Battle for Control of Strait of Hormuz, Threaten Global Oil Flows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fragile recovery at risk<\/p>\n<p>Iran faces a difficult choice<\/p>\n<p>Pressure moves closer to Kharg<\/p>\n<p>Warning before the strike<\/p>\n<p>How far will Iran escalate?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gulfnews.com\/author\/stephen-n-r\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gulfnews\/2025-05-15\/lxugegpt\/Stephen_N_R__pic.jpg\"  alt=\"Stephen N R\" class=\"qt-image\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Senior Associate Editor with more than 30 years in the media, Stephen N.R. curates, edits and publishes impactful stories for Gulf News \u2014 both in print and online \u2014 focusing on Middle East politics, student issues and explainers on global topics. <\/p>\n<p>Stephen has spent most of his career in journalism, working behind the scenes \u2014 shaping headlines, editing copy and putting together newspaper pages with precision.  <\/p>\n<p>For the past many years, he has brought that same dedication to the Gulf News digital team, where he curates stories, crafts explainers and helps keep both the web and print editions sharp and engaging. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fragile recovery at risk Iran faces a difficult choice Pressure moves closer to Kharg Warning before the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[3074,34,101,69,225],"class_list":["post-279757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-americas","tag-iran","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-us-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117221516331149489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279757","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=279757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}