{"id":21835,"date":"2026-03-18T18:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21835"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:44:19","slug":"forcing-open-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21835","title":{"rendered":"Forcing Open the Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Militarily opening the Strait of Hormuz will be incredibly hard. Iran only has to get through once, the US needs to stop every weapon. It will require the great risk of putting a lot of forces&nbsp;close to Iran.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Forcing Open the Strait of Hormuz\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BRrfFhRxNi4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militarily opening the Strait of Hormuz will be incredibly hard. Iran only has to get through once, the US needs to stop every weapon. It will require the great risk of putting a lot of forces close to Iran. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BRrfFhRxNi4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,272,355,314,156,259,576,578,1226,619,158,1055],"class_list":["post-21835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-military","tag-oil","tag-oil-price","tag-shipping","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21837,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21835\/revisions\/21837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}