{"id":84392,"date":"2026-07-13T07:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84392"},"modified":"2026-07-13T07:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:50:19","slug":"u-s-iran-battle-over-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/u-s-iran-battle-over-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S., Iran Battle Over Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The United States and\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Iran<\/a><\/span>\u00a0each asserted Monday they controlled\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/the-worlds-most-important-21-miles-0000019d2fbfd29daffdefffc72e0000\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">the Strait of Hormuz<\/a><\/span>\u00a0after a weekend of attacks stretching across the wider Middle East, further threatening any diplomacy to end the war.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks, sparked by Iran striking a container ship Sunday in the strait off the coast of Oman, again underlined that the waterway that once saw a fifth of the world\u2019s traded crude oil and natural gas pass through it remained the key issue in negotiations. The narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf has seen shipping disrupted since the start of the war as Iran has maintained a chokehold on it by attacking commercial vessels around it, intimidating shippers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: The United States and\u00a0Iran\u00a0each asserted Monday they controlled\u00a0the Strait of Hormuz\u00a0after a weekend of attacks stretching across the.<\/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-84392","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\/84392","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=84392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84393,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84392\/revisions\/84393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}