{"id":99361,"date":"2026-05-05T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/99361\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:05:10","slug":"u-s-officials-say-ceasefire-with-iran-holds-up-despite-efforts-to-re-open-the-strait-of-hormuz-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/99361\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. officials say ceasefire with Iran holds up, despite efforts to re-open the Strait of Hormuz | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26124419873647-1000x667.jpg\" alt=\"Oil tankers sit at anchor offshore in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Saturday, May 2, 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi\/ISNA via AP)\"\/>Oil tankers sit at anchor offshore in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Saturday, May 2, 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi\/ISNA via AP)  (Amirhosein Khorgooi\/ISNA via AP)<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.-Israeli ceasefire with Iran somehow remains intact, despite tensions rising as both the U.S. and Iran vie for control over the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway that has been under Iranian control since the start of the war over two months ago.<\/p>\n<p>NPR\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/1141549832\/aya-batrawy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aya Batrawy<\/a> joins Here &amp; Now for the latest on the situation with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2026\/05\/05\/ceasefire-strait-of-hormuz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WBUR.org.<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1089279.png\" style=\"width:1px;height:1px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WBUR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oil tankers sit at anchor offshore in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Saturday, May 2,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,42,12508],"class_list":{"0":"post-99361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-uncategorized"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116523769783808549","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99361","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=99361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}