{"id":97189,"date":"2026-05-04T13:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97189\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:40:13","slug":"shipping-traffic-stalls-in-strait-of-hormuz-as-iran-expands-control-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97189\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipping Traffic Stalls in Strait of Hormuz as Iran Expands Control Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remained largely frozen amid increasing tensions, as Iran attacked ships and the US started a plan to guide vessels out of the vital waterway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Activity was limited to a handful of vessels, mostly linked to Iran, as of early afternoon in London on Monday. US President Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-04\/trump-announces-humanitarian-plan-to-get-ships-through-hormuz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">proposal<\/a> to help stranded ships out of the Persian Gulf, framed as a \u201chumanitarian gesture,\u201d left shipping executives looking for details as the security outlook remains uncertain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remained largely frozen amid increasing tensions, as Iran attacked ships and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[15653,3219,26007,3199,102,3190,34,1178,179,39,101,69,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-97189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-ais","9":"tag-donald-john-trump","10":"tag-executives","11":"tag-generic-1st-cl-future","12":"tag-hormuz","13":"tag-industries","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-london","16":"tag-military","17":"tag-persian-gulf","18":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","19":"tag-tehran","20":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116516593546461202","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97189","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=97189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}