{"id":617273,"date":"2026-04-19T14:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617273\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:45:13","slug":"iran-plays-down-uranium-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617273\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran plays down uranium deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T\ufeffhat ends today&#8217;s live coverage of the Middle East war.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has closed the key shipping route the Strait of Hormuz again, blaming the US for &#8220;breaches of trust&#8221; during the ongoing ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Two merchant vessels transiting the strait have been fired on, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>US officials have been seen arriving at the White House as negotiations with Iran approach a critical juncture, with the temporary ceasefire set to expire in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>And Australia is &#8220;clearly going to help&#8221; in the war, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think what America wants, as we all want, is ultimately to see the Strait of Hormuz open,&#8221; he said.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T\ufeffhat ends today&#8217;s live coverage of the Middle East war. Iran has closed the key shipping route the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-617273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617273","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=617273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}