{"id":149931,"date":"2026-04-18T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149931"},"modified":"2026-04-18T14:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:00:13","slug":"closed-open-closed-why-is-iran-changing-course-on-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149931","title":{"rendered":"Closed? Open? Closed? Why is Iran changing course on the Strait of Hormuz?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz only hours after its reopening is a tactic by Iran to gain leverage over the United States before possible negotiations, according to Chinese analysts.<br \/>\nWith the clock counting down to the end of a two-week ceasefire with the US on Wednesday, a deal with Washington was still possible and the likelihood of Tehran imposing a toll on the waterway was low, they added.<br \/>\nThe assessment came as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Saturday that&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3350588\/closed-open-closed-why-iran-changing-course-strait-hormuz?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 shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz only hours after its reopening is a tactic by Iran to gain leverage over the United States&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\/149931"}],"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=149931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}