{"id":4530,"date":"2026-06-01T17:11:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/times509.com\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:11:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:11:55","slug":"hormuz-the-iranian-president-promises-japan-to-facilitate-the-passage-of-its-ships-through-the-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/hormuz-the-iranian-president-promises-japan-to-facilitate-the-passage-of-its-ships-through-the-strait\/","title":{"rendered":"Hormuz: the Iranian president promises Japan to facilitate the passage of its ships through the strait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian assured on Monday that his country would facilitate the passage of Japanese ships through the Strait of Hormuz, which has been almost blocked by Iran since the war was triggered by the United States and Israel on February 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian assured on Monday that his country would facilitate Japanese ships&#8217; passage through the Strait of Hormuz, which has been nearly blocked by Iran since the outbreak of the war by the United States and Israel on February 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Islamic Republic of Iran is fully willing to facilitate maritime traffic&#8221; in the Strait of Hormuz, Massoud Pezeshkian told Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We will strive to ensure an easy and smooth passage for Japanese ships,&#8221; added Mr. Pezeshkian, according to statements reported by the presidency, while Japan relies heavily on the Strait of Hormuz for its oil imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian assured on Monday that his country would facilitate the passage of Japanese ships through the Strait of Hormuz, which has been almost blocked by Iran since&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow67bgCw:productID":"","_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_ayudawp_aiss_exclude":false,"_ayudawp_aiss_summary":"","_ayudawp_aiss_summary_provider":"","_ayudawp_aiss_summary_hash":"","page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-4530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions\/4532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}