{"id":405558,"date":"2026-04-22T18:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/405558\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:41:11","slug":"iran-says-reopening-strait-of-hormuz-impossible-if-us-blockade-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/405558\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says reopening Strait of Hormuz ‘impossible’ if US blockade continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Analysis\"Some Iranians trying to get on with their lives, while others are defiantpublished at 15:22 BST<\/p>\n

15:22 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Lyse Doucet
Chief international correspondent, in Iran<\/p>\n

The first reactions here to President Trump\u2019s ceasefire extension, by spokesmen on social media, was predictable, sceptical, defiant. <\/p>\n

Mahdi Mohammadi, an adviser to Iran\u2019s lead negotiator, dismissed it as meaningless, a ploy to buy time for a surprise attack.
\nIt underlines the deep distrust here about US diplomacy. <\/p>\n

Previous rounds of talks – last year and this year – were shattered by surprise Israeli-American attacks. <\/p>\n

Iran has its own commitment to keep as part of this ceasefire. But it\u2019s making it clear it won\u2019t open the strategic Strait of Hormuz, on its conditions, until the US lifts its naval blockade and releases its seized vessel – that\u2019s the political logjam now. <\/p>\n

And there\u2019s no clear sign of how and when it will be resolved.
\nWhen we speak to Iranians here, we hear a range of views, not surprisingly.
\n Iranians taking to the main squares in this city every night in response to the government\u2019s call to show solidarity, are also defiant. <\/p>\n

Others tell us they\u2019re just trying to get on with their lives, exhausted by years of failed nuclear talks, spiralling prices, tightening security and surveillance, and all the many restrictions on their lives, their futures.<\/p>\n

The BBC’s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet is reporting from Tehran on condition that none of her material is used on the BBC’s Persian Service. These restrictions apply to all international media organisations operating in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some Iranians trying to get on with their lives, while others are defiantpublished at 15:22 BST 15:22 BST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-405558","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\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}