{"id":88394,"date":"2026-04-14T14:43:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/us-sanctioned-ships-pass-strait-of-hormuz-as-china-calls-trumps-blockade-dangerous-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:43:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:43:44","slug":"us-sanctioned-ships-pass-strait-of-hormuz-as-china-calls-trumps-blockade-dangerous-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/us-sanctioned-ships-pass-strait-of-hormuz-as-china-calls-trumps-blockade-dangerous-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"US-sanctioned ships pass Strait of Hormuz as China calls Trump&#8217;s blockade &#8216;dangerous&#8217; | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least four Iran-linked ships &#8211; including two that visited Iranian ports &#8211; crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday <!--more--> following the start of a blockade by the US. At least three others also crossed the key shipping channel.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s foreign ministry condemned the blockade of Iranian ports as &#8220;dangerous and irresponsible&#8221; &#8211; a spokesman has warmed it would only &#8220;exacerbate tensions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Washington&#8217;s blockade came into force on Monday. US Vice-President JD Vance accused the Iranian government of engaging in an &#8220;act of economic terrorism&#8221; by blocking traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Vance added that US President Donald Trump has shown that &#8220;two could play at that game&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#US #StraitOfHormuz #Iran #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least four Iran-linked ships &#8211; including two that visited Iranian ports &#8211; crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}