{"id":87926,"date":"2026-04-18T09:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87926"},"modified":"2026-04-18T09:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:09:48","slug":"87926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/18\/87926\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWSIran says it has closed Strait of Hormuz again after US refused to remove their blockade as Trump threatens to resume bombing"},"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:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2026\/04\/18\/07\/107985123-15744213-image-a-9_1776495457840.jpg\" alt=\"The dramatic move comes just hours after Iran declared the key waterway 'completely open' and a convoy of eight oil tankers passed through the Strait, according to vessel tracking data. Pictured:\u00a0Tracking site MarineTraffic shows several ships appearing to be moving through the waterway\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-615224b0-3b03-11f1-a43d-53cca78db8bd\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/iran\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Iran<\/a><\/span>\u00a0says it has shut the Strait of Hormuz once more after the US refused to lift what Tehran describes as a naval blockade of its ports, as\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-732e2260-3b03-11f1-a43d-53cca78db8bd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/donald_trump\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/span> warned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15744213\/Convoy-oil-tankers-passes-Strait-Hormuz-vessel-tracking-data-shows-Iran-declared-waterway-completely-open-Trump-mocked-Nato.html\">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\u00a0says it has shut the Strait of Hormuz once more after the US refused to lift what Tehran describes as a naval&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87926","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\/2023\/10\/Breaking-news.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87926","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=87926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87928,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87926\/revisions\/87928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}