{"id":87416,"date":"2026-10-14T08:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87416"},"modified":"2026-10-14T08:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:12:45","slug":"hormuz-still-in-stranglehold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/hormuz-still-in-stranglehold\/","title":{"rendered":"Hormuz Still In Stranglehold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Guardian:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s stranglehold on th<span style=\"color: #000000;\">e <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/strait-of-hormuz\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, a vital shipping route that usually carries one-fifth of global oil supplies, continues as a container ship is reported to have hit a naval mine.\u00a0According to <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps\">Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards Navy,<\/a> a ve<\/span>ssel carrying more than 2,500 containers on Wednesday attempted to transit what it described as an \u201cunauthorised and dangerous\u201d route. The ship caught fire after hitting a naval mine and has sunk in the south of the Strait.\u00a0In a statement, Iran\u2019s Guards have warned local vessels and fishermen to take care. While traffic on the 24-mile Strait appeared to be increasing over recent months, two senior Iranian officials say that Iran is deploying new tactics to target ships sailing through the passage as it seeks to keep oil prices high and influence the <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/midterm-votes-counted-accuracy-poll-b3066153.html\">US midterm elections<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Guardian: Iran\u2019s stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route that usually carries one-fifth of global.<\/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":["post-87416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87416","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=87416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87417,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87416\/revisions\/87417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}