{"id":673012,"date":"2026-03-22T04:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/673012\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T04:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:41:14","slug":"iran-prepared-to-let-japanese-ships-transit-hormuz-fm-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/673012\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran prepared to let Japanese ships transit Hormuz, FM says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran is prepared to allow Japanese-related ships to transit the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway through which 93% of Japan\u2019s imported crude oil flows, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions with Japan on the matter have already begun, according to a transcript of Araghchi\u2019s interview with Kyodo News <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/s\/s_a_araghchi\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted to his Telegram account Saturday<\/a>. Araghchi said the issue had been raised during his phone call last Tuesday with Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on a TV program Sunday, Motegi declined to go into detail about the phone call but said their discussion had \u201ccentered on the fact that halting trade \u2014 including container shipments \u2014 is not a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tehran is prepared to allow Japanese-related ships to transit the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway through which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":671145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[69,83,283272,3097,50,270,146010,200106,283273,103],"class_list":["post-673012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-iran-japan-relations","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-sanae-takaichi","tag-sdf","tag-u-s-japan-relations","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116270995408211846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}