{"id":266161,"date":"2026-05-26T11:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=266161"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:51:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:51:02","slug":"rubio-says-strait-of-hormuz-must-remain-open-one-way-or-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/266161\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio says Strait of Hormuz must remain open \u2018one way or the other\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday negotiating a deal with Iran could &ldquo;take a few days,&rdquo; &#8203;a day after US forces conducted what Washington called defensive strikes in southern Iran, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/rubio-says-iran-deal-could-take-days-us-launches-fresh-strikes-2026-05-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the strikes against targets including boats attempting to lay mines &zwnj;and missile launch sites, Rubio said the Strait of Hormuz has to be open &ldquo;one way or the other.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Despite a ceasefire in place since early April, US Central Command said in a statement on Monday it had carried &#8203;out fresh strikes designed to protect US troops from &ldquo;threats posed by Iranian forces.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday negotiating a deal with Iran could &ldquo;take a few days,&rdquo; &#8203;a day after US forces conducted what Washington called defensive strikes in southern Iran, Reuters writes. Describing the strikes against targets including boats attempting to lay mines &zwnj;and missile launch sites, Rubio said the Strait of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":266103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,96,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266162,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266161\/revisions\/266162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}