{"id":568720,"date":"2026-03-27T22:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/568720\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:37:10","slug":"us-expects-to-end-operation-in-weeks-says-marco-rubio-g7-foreign-ministers-call-for-attacks-on-civilians-to-stop-toll-free-navigation-in-strait-of-hormuz-israel-attacks-iranian-nuclear-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/568720\/","title":{"rendered":"US expects to end operation in weeks, says Marco Rubio; G7 foreign ministers call for attacks on civilians to stop, toll-free navigation in Strait of Hormuz; Israel attacks Iranian nuclear facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Chinese container ships trying to get through the Strait of Hormuz have turned back, despite Iran\u2019s assurances that Chinese vessels would be allowed to pass.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s COSCO, the operator of the CSCL Arctic Ocean and the CSCL Indian Ocean, had said earlier this week that it had resumed bookings for general cargo containers for shipments from Asia to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>While this was the first crossing of the troubled shipping artery attempted by a major shipping group since the start of the war, the vessels\u2019 return into the Persian Gulf showed \u201csafe passage could not be guaranteed\u201d, Rebecca Gerdes, an analyst at ship tracking website Kpler, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The journey of CSCL Arctic Ocean, as shown on boat tracking website Vessel Finder.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/52d5702f47eeeb79d124e6df3182417d00efd6a4d159a604faf87721e987c25c.png\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>The journey of CSCL Arctic Ocean, as shown on boat tracking website Vessel Finder.Vessel Finder<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Tehran\u2019s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said in a post on X that Iran \u201cpermitted passage through the Strait of Hormuz for friendly nations including China, Russia, India, Iraq, and Pakistan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The two vessels both broadcast messages on their AIS ship-tracking systems stating they had Chinese owners and crews, data on the LSEG platform showed on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>with Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Chinese container ships trying to get through the Strait of Hormuz have turned back, despite Iran\u2019s assurances&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-568720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}