{"id":82566,"date":"2026-05-02T08:07:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82566"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:07:26","slug":"u-s-warns-on-strait-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/u-s-warns-on-strait-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Warns On Strait Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The United States is warning shipping companies that they could face sanctions for making payments to Iran to safely pass through the Strait of Hormuz.\u00a0The alert posted Friday by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control adds another layer of pressure in the standoff between the U.S. and Iran over control of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>About a fifth of the world\u2019s trade in oil and natural gas typi<span style=\"color: #000000;\">cally passes through\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/strait-of-hormuz\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">the strait at the mouth of the Persian Gulf<\/a><\/span> in peacetime. The U.S. responded to Iran\u2019s closure of the strait with a naval blockade of its own on April 13, preventing any Iranian tankers from leaving and depriving Iran of oil revenue it needs to\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-israel-war-economy-blockade-steel-exports-7d3c6c63ec432e57325814d48938ccfe\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">shore up its ailing economy<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1777709246\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"U.S. Warns On Strait Sanctions\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: The United States is warning shipping companies that they could face sanctions for making payments to Iran to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82567,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82566\/revisions\/82567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}