{"id":11296,"date":"2026-04-17T14:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/11296\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:16:41","slug":"irans-foreign-minister-declares-strait-of-hormuz-open-michael-clarke-tara-kangarlou-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/11296\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s foreign minister declares Strait of Hormuz &#8216;open&#8217; | Michael Clarke &#038; Tara Kangarlou analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Iran&#039;s foreign minister declares Strait of Hormuz &#039;open&#039; | Michael Clarke &amp; Tara Kangarlou analysis\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j9dHYNeLxwU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIran&#8217;s foreign minister declares Strait of Hormuz &#8216;open&#8217; | Michael Clarke &#038; Tara Kangarlou analysis<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIran&#8217;s foreign minister appears to have declared the Strait of Hormuz &#8220;completely open&#8221; for the &#8220;remaining period of ceasefire&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Seyed Abbas Aragchi said the move would include the passage of &#8220;all commercial vessels&#8221; through the strait.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile President Trump has posted on Truth Social platform, saying that the US blockade of Iranian ships and ports will &#8220;remain in full force&#8221;, despite Iran&#8217;s announcement that the Strait of Hormuz is reopening to shipping.<\/p>\n<p>Trump says the US blockade will stay until its negotiations with Iran are &#8220;100% complete&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Defence and security analyst Michael Clarke and Middle East commentator Tara Kangarlou analyse this latest development. <\/p>\n<p>Read the latest: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/iran-war-latest-trump-us-israel-ceasefire-deal-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-strikes-oil-lebanon-13509565<\/p>\n<p>#us #iran #war #skynews #straitofhormuz #presidenttrump <\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>Listen to our new podcast This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s foreign minister declares Strait of Hormuz &#8216;open&#8217; | Michael Clarke &#038; Tara Kangarlou analysis Iran&#8217;s foreign minister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[14604,216,38,8604,215,46,31,14606,1520,296,199,27,198,44,49],"class_list":["post-11296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-analyst","tag-east","tag-iran","tag-michael-clarke","tag-middle","tag-military","tag-news","tag-sean","tag-sky","tag-sky-news","tag-states","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-united","tag-usa","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116420483618865146","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}