{"id":1068529,"date":"2026-07-04T18:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1068529\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T18:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:59:16","slug":"russias-medvedev-says-strait-of-hormuz-is-irans-nuclear-weapon-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1068529\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Medvedev says Strait of Hormuz is Iran\u2019s \u2018nuclear weapon\u2019 | Conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsFeed<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead u-inline \">Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia\u2019s security council, says Iran\u2019s ability to disrupt traffic in the Strait of Hormuz is equivalent to possession of a nuclear weapon. The comment was made in a video posted to social media as he returned from attending the funeral of Iran\u2019s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 4 Jul 20264 Jul 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share-nodes<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NewsFeed Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia\u2019s security council, says Iran\u2019s ability to disrupt traffic in the Strait&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1068530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7655],"tags":[6178,299,1234,774,839,12,8041,1490,28137,6858,7670,332],"class_list":["post-1068529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-russia","tag-conflict","tag-europe","tag-government","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-obituaries","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-oman","tag-opinions","tag-russia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116863248959341786","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1068530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}