{"id":49463,"date":"2026-03-28T06:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-is-it-so-hard-to-pass-through-the-strait-of-hormuz\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:43:09","slug":"why-is-it-so-hard-to-pass-through-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-is-it-so-hard-to-pass-through-the-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it so hard to pass through the Strait of Hormuz?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Around 20% of the world\u2019s oil supply normally passes through the Strait of Hormuz &#8211; the narrow waterway between Iran and the horn-like tip of the Arabian peninsula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Right now it is effectively closed, with Iran deciding which ships can get through, and the impact is being felt worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">The BBC&#8217;s Diplomatic Correspondent Paul Adams explains why navigating this key shipping channel could be so dangerous.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cx24jk0z74yo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 20% of the world\u2019s oil supply normally passes through the Strait of Hormuz &#8211; the narrow waterway between Iran and the horn-like tip of the Arabian peninsula. Right now it is effectively closed, with Iran deciding which ships can get through, and the impact is being felt worldwide. The BBC&#8217;s Diplomatic Correspondent Paul Adams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49465,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49463\/revisions\/49465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}