{"id":68777,"date":"2025-06-23T09:15:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T09:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68777"},"modified":"2025-06-23T09:15:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T09:15:54","slug":"us-urges-china-to-stop-iran-from-blocking-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/23\/us-urges-china-to-stop-iran-from-blocking-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"US Urges China to Stop Iran from Blocking Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged China to use its influence to prevent Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz, a vital global oil shipping route.<\/p>\n<p>His appeal followed reports by Iran&#8217;s state-run Press TV that the Iranian parliament had approved a plan to shut the strait, although the final decision rests with the Supreme National Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio warned that any disruption in oil flow would severely impact the global economy.<\/p>\n<p>He noted China\u2019s key role, as the largest buyer of Iranian oil and a close ally of Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I encourage the Chinese government in Beijing to call them about that, because they heavily depend on the Strait of Hormuz for their oil,&#8221; Rubio said.<\/p>\n<p>Oil prices have surged since the US strike on Iranian nuclear sites, with Brent crude hitting a five-month high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged China to use its influence to prevent Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz, a vital global oil shipping route. His appeal followed reports by Iran&#8217;s state-run Press TV that the Iranian parliament had approved a plan to shut the strait, although the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68780,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68777\/revisions\/68780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}