{"id":149887,"date":"2026-04-17T13:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149887"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:26:27","slug":"iran-has-opened-strait-of-hormuz-but-will-the-us-ease-its-economic-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149887","title":{"rendered":"Iran has opened Strait of Hormuz but will the US ease its economic squeeze?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US appears to be intensifying its war efforts with an economic squeeze to force Iran to cave in before further talks, but Chinese observers say the strategy could backfire on the US economy.<br \/>\nThe US continued to exert pressure on Iran on Friday even as Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced that passage for all \u200ccommercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz was completely open for \u2060the remainder of a two-week ceasefire due to expire on April 22.<br \/>\nThe passage of the vessels would&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3350514\/why-us-threats-tighten-economic-vice-iran-might-prolong-war?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 PostThe US appears to be intensifying its war efforts with an economic squeeze to force Iran to cave in before further talks, but Chinese&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\/149887"}],"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=149887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}