{"id":72190,"date":"2026-04-18T22:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/72190\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:01:09","slug":"iran-says-the-strait-of-hormuz-is-closed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/72190\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Says the Strait of Hormuz Is Closed Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Iran Says the Strait of Hormuz Is Closed Again<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>Iran Says the Strait of Hormuz Is Closed AgainIran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards said they were closing the Strait of Hormuz until the U.S. blockade was lifted. Two Indian-flagged ships reported being hit as they tried to cross the passage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">It\u2019s going actually along very well and we\u2019ll see. But we\u2019ll have some information by the end of the day. We\u2019re talking to them. And, we\u2019re taking a tough stand.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/18israel-iran-hormuz-shipping-topart-tgpf-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards said they were closing the Strait of Hormuz until the U.S. blockade was lifted. Two Indian-flagged ships reported being hit as they tried to cross the passage.<\/p>\n<p>By McKinnon de Kuyper<\/p>\n<p>April 18, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Iran Says the Strait of Hormuz Is Closed Again transcript Back transcript Iran Says the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[102,34,16581,101,5431],"class_list":{"0":"post-72190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-hormuz","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-islamic-revolutionary-guards","11":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","12":"tag-us-and-israeli-attack-on-iran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116427966546301274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72190","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=72190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}