{"id":147768,"date":"2026-03-12T14:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147768"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:05:21","slug":"strait-of-hormuz-must-stay-closed-irans-mojtaba-khamenei-says-in-defiant-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147768","title":{"rendered":"Strait of Hormuz must stay closed, Iran\u2019s Mojtaba Khamenei says in defiant statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIran\u2019s new supreme leader has vowed to keep blocking the Strait of Hormuz, attack US bases and avenge the \u201cblood of the martyrs\u201d in his first statement since succeeding his father.<br \/>\n\u201cThe lever of blocking the Strait of Hormuz must definitely be used,\u201d Mojtaba Khamenei said about the strategic waterway, which supplies a fifth of the world\u2019s oil.<br \/>\nKhamenei said the US must close all of its military bases in the region \u201cas soon as possible, because they must have realised by now that the claim of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/article\/3346408\/irans-mojtaba-khamenei-tells-gulf-nations-close-us-bases-war-rages?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIran\u2019s new supreme leader has vowed to keep blocking the Strait of Hormuz, attack US bases and avenge the \u201cblood of the martyrs\u201d in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147768"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}