{"id":585955,"date":"2026-04-15T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/585955\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:45:09","slug":"iran-threatens-shipping-in-gulf-red-sea-trumps-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/585955\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran threatens shipping in Gulf, Red Sea; Trump&#8217;s Strait of Hormuz blockade continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"c7\">Canada, the U.K., Australia, Japan and six other nations issued a joint statement yesterday condemning the killing of U.N. peacekeepers \u2014 including three Indonesian personnel who died last month \u2014 and calling for an \u201curgent end to hostilities\u201d in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"ca\">\u201cAustralia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Sierra Leone, Switzerland and the United Kingdom remain deeply concerned by the worsening humanitarian situation and displacement crisis in Lebanon,\u201d the statement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260415-lebanon-rs-95221a.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"521\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" alt=\"\" class=\"block\" q:id=\"ce\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption mb-0 _caption_1r9t6_8\" q:key=\"Gg_6\">Scenes of destruction across Lebanon yesterday.\u00a0  AP; Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"ck\">While the countries welcomed a ceasefire agreement involving the United States, Israel and Iran, they said attacks in Lebanon must stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"cn\">\u201cWe welcome the ceasefire agreed between the United States, Israel and Iran,\u201d the statement said. \u201cWe call for an urgent end to hostilities in Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada, the U.K., Australia, Japan and six other nations issued a joint statement yesterday condemning the killing of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-585955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}