{"id":76069,"date":"2026-07-13T17:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/us-launches-third-night-of-strikes-on-iran-as-trump-announces-hormuz-blockade\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:54:55","slug":"us-launches-third-night-of-strikes-on-iran-as-trump-announces-hormuz-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/us-launches-third-night-of-strikes-on-iran-as-trump-announces-hormuz-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"US launches third night of strikes on Iran as Trump announces Hormuz blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president also says ships will be charged for safe passage through strait in apparent policy reversal<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/jul\/13\/us-iran-strikes-middle-east-strait-of-hormuz-military-latest-news-updates\"><strong>Middle East crisis live \u2013 latest updates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US has launched its third consecutive night of strikes on Iran hours after president Donald Trump said Washington would reinstate a maritime blockade on the country and, in an apparently policy reversal, charge ships for safe passage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese strikes will continue imposing a heavy cost on Iranian forces and degrade their ability to attack innocent civilians and commercial shipping in the strait of Hormuz,\u201d the US military\u2019s Central Command said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/13\/us-launches-third-night-of-strikes-on-iran-as-trump-announces-hormuz-blockade\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president also says ships will be charged for safe passage through strait in apparent policy reversal Middle East crisis live \u2013 latest updates The US has launched its third consecutive night of strikes on Iran hours after president Donald Trump said Washington would reinstate a maritime blockade on the country and, in an apparently &#8230; <a title=\"US launches third night of strikes on Iran as Trump announces Hormuz blockade\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/us-launches-third-night-of-strikes-on-iran-as-trump-announces-hormuz-blockade\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US launches third night of strikes on Iran as Trump announces Hormuz blockade\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}