{"id":647923,"date":"2026-05-04T00:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647923\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:22:11","slug":"ship-attacked-near-strait-of-hormuz-as-iran-says-it-is-reviewing-us-response-to-14-point-proposal-to-end-war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647923\/","title":{"rendered":"Ship attacked near Strait of Hormuz as Iran says it is reviewing US response to 14-point proposal to end war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Minister Penny Wong has emphasised the need for the Strait of Hormuz to reopen, but stopped short of committing Australia to joining US President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cProject Freedom\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are certainly many ships which are trapped in the Strait of Hormuz, and \u2026 I have spoken before about the need to open the strait, both for the energy markets and also to get those ships through and those seafarers out safely,\u201d Wong told Seven\u2019s Sunrise.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213f3ad94209caf656b9b46018590f21a34f713b.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been engaging with the US, with the UK, with France on efforts to reopen the strait. We will continue to engage with them. What we do want, however, is Iran to cut a deal, make sure they get a negotiated outcome that opens the strait and is to the satisfaction of the United States and the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said earlier today that \u201cProject Freedom\u201d would help stranded ships leave the Strait of Hormuz, and would free people, companies and countries that are \u201cvictims of circumstance\u201d. He also said US representatives were having discussions with Iran that could lead to something \u201cvery positive for all\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister Penny Wong has emphasised the need for the Strait of Hormuz to reopen, but stopped short&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-647923","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\/647923","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=647923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}