Rania Abushamala<\/p>\n
20 June 2026\u2022Update: 20 June 2026<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters announced on Saturday the Strait of Hormuz \u201cwill be closed,\u201d citing a US \u201cbreach\u201d of commitments and continued Israeli ceasefire violations in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n
In a statement carried by state-run Press TV, the headquarters said the decision followed the US \u201cclear breach of faith and violation of its commitments\u201d through non-implementation of Clause 1 of the Memorandum of Understanding signed last week aimed at ending the war.<\/p>\n
It also cited the \u201ccontinuous ceasefire violations by the Israeli regime in southern Lebanon\u201d and the failure of Israeli occupying forces to withdraw from southern Lebanese territories.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is hereby declared that the Strait will be closed to the passage of vessels,\u201d the statement said.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rania Abushamala 20 June 2026\u2022Update: 20 June 2026 Iran\u2019s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters announced on Saturday the Strait…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-502637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502637","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=502637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}