{"id":72749,"date":"2026-04-19T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/72749\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:03:09","slug":"iran-says-final-deal-still-far-off-as-strait-of-hormuz-remains-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/72749\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says final deal still far off as Strait of Hormuz remains closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1x1_spacer.png\" alt=\"Ships and tankers in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Musandam, Oman. The Strait of Hormuz remained closed on April 19, 2026 in the stand-off between Iran and the United States\" title=\"Ships and tankers in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Musandam, Oman. The Strait of Hormuz remained closed on April 19, 2026 in the stand-off between Iran and the United States\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1x1_spacer.png\" class=\"lead-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n                    Ships and tankers in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Musandam, Oman. The Strait of Hormuz remained closed on April 19, 2026 in the stand-off between Iran and the United States<br \/>\n                                          | Photo Credit: Reuters\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>The Strait of Hormuz remained closed on Sunday (April 19, 2026) in the stand-off between Iran and the United States, with Iran\u2019s powerful Speaker of Parliament signalling a final peace deal was \u201cfar\u201d off despite movement in negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>As mediation efforts continued following high-level talks in Pakistan that failed to reach a deal, Iran said it would not reopen the crucial maritime trade route until the United States ended its blockade of Iranian ports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time-new\"> Published &#8211; April 19, 2026 03:47 pm IST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ships and tankers in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Musandam, Oman. The Strait of Hormuz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[102,26785,18127,26784,26786,26783,101,155,480],"class_list":{"0":"post-72749","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-signals-final-peace-deal-is-distant","10":"tag-iran-us-ceasefire","11":"tag-iran-us-peace-talks-in-pakistan","12":"tag-irans-ongoing-negotiations-and-tensions","13":"tag-israel-us-strike-on-iran","14":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","15":"tag-strait-of-hormuz-closure","16":"tag-west-asia-conflict"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116431041492831451","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72749","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=72749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}