{"id":87888,"date":"2026-04-17T20:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87888"},"modified":"2026-04-17T20:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:56:29","slug":"iran-says-strait-of-hormuz-is-open-but-tracking-shows-few-ships-moving-as-trump-says-us-blockade-will-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/17\/iran-says-strait-of-hormuz-is-open-but-tracking-shows-few-ships-moving-as-trump-says-us-blockade-will-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says Strait of Hormuz is &#8216;open&#8217; but tracking shows few ships moving, as Trump says US blockade will continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/640\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2026\/4\/17\/35a472d5-d0bf-4202-a691-0df89ad04a03.png.webp\" alt=\"A map showing the IRGC Navy's two published routes through the Strait of Hormuz where ships going west sail north of Larak Island those going east pass to its south\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s foreign minister says the Strait of Hormuz is\u00a0<a class=\"ssrcss-ztter6-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cqxdg17yr2wt?post=asset%3A3c58f6cd-4f74-469c-a381-d8d5eea7417f#post\">&#8220;completely open&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0to commercial ships for the remainder of the ceasefire,\u00a0<a class=\"ssrcss-ztter6-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cqxdg17yr2wt?post=asset%3A1b31b791-8ff3-4625-8789-41c3a1f9da03#post\">but tracking data shows very few vessels\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cqxdg17yr2wt\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Iran&#8217;s foreign minister says the Strait of Hormuz is\u00a0&#8220;completely open&#8221;\u00a0to commercial ships for the remainder of the ceasefire,\u00a0but tracking data shows very&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ship-Hormuz.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87889,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87888\/revisions\/87889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}