{"id":546669,"date":"2026-07-17T21:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/546669\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:11:09","slug":"iran-now-controls-an-international-waterway-will-other-countries-do-the-same-state-of-the-world-from-npr-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/546669\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran now controls an international waterway, will other countries do the same? : State of the World from NPR : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784322669_394_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F13%2F45%2Ffe5800dd4b039fe62ac9ae025c5e%2F52b511ba-bc66-475e-acf3-a857571c39cd.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Tankers and cargo vessels are seen in the Gulf of Oman, along shipping routes linking the Strait of Hormuz and the Arabian Sea, Tuesday, June 16, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                    uncredited\/AP<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>              toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        uncredited\/AP<\/p>\n<p>The reasons given for the U.S. launching a war with Iran have shifted over time.  But regardless of why the war started, the fighting between the U.S. and Iran is now largely over control of the Strait of Hormuz.  Before the war, about a fifth of the world\u2019s oil passed freely through the narrow international waterway. Now Iran controls the strait.  We look at this threat to the freedom of navigation and whether it sets a a dangerous precedent for other waterways. <\/p>\n<p>This episode is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/2100981\/jackie-northam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Global Affairs Correspondent Jackie Northam\u2019s <\/a>last story for NPR, she is retiring. Jackie has covered world events for NPR for decades from nearly every continent and just about every global conflict.  You can hear Jackie reflecting on her remarkable career <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/07\/11\/nx-s1-5890179\/a-veteran-foreign-correspondent-looks-back-on-a-career-covering-conflicts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">this recent episode of the Consider This podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tankers and cargo vessels are seen in the Gulf of Oman, along shipping routes linking the Strait of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-546669","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\/546669","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=546669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}