{"id":87706,"date":"2026-04-28T14:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/87706\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:55:13","slug":"the-strait-of-hormuz-is-the-iran-wars-defining-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/87706\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strait of Hormuz Is the Iran War\u2019s Defining Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Welcome back to Bloomberg\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/account\/newsletters\/defense-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Defense Monitor<\/a>, a weekly rundown on the companies, geopolitics and finances of the future battlefield. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/account\/newsletters\/defense-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Sign up now<\/a> if you\u2019re not already on the list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">I\u2019ll bet you didn\u2019t expect the Falkland Islands to be back in the news, but back they are after reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-04-24\/uk-insists-sovereignty-of-falklands-is-unchanged-after-us-threat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">US may reconsider its stance on the territory<\/a> in retaliation for the UK\u2019s reluctance to support the war in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome back to Bloomberg\u2019s Defense Monitor, a weekly rundown on the companies, geopolitics and finances of the future&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[1726,328,29257,563,3199,31155,34,31154,179,39,691,36],"class_list":["post-87706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-air-force","tag-business","tag-falkland-islands","tag-general-dynamics-corp","tag-generic-1st-cl-future","tag-indra-sistemas-sa","tag-iran","tag-korea-aerospace-industries","tag-military","tag-persian-gulf","tag-united-kingdom","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116482914568517881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87706","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=87706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}