{"id":4964,"date":"2026-09-06T22:03:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T03:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/energy-chief-defends-us-claims-on-hormuz-traffic\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T22:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T03:03:41","slug":"energy-chief-defends-us-claims-on-hormuz-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/energy-chief-defends-us-claims-on-hormuz-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Chief Defends US Claims on Hormuz Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/utEGX0dGqMQ\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"US putting &amp;apos;MAXIMUM&amp;apos; pressure on Iran, Energy chief says\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/utEGX0dGqMQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 September 6, 2026 (STL.News) U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright defended the Trump administration Sunday against growing questions about the amount of oil actually moving through the Strait of Hormuz, arguing that government figures showing millions of barrels crossing the strategic waterway are accurate despite independent vessel-tracking data indicating that overall ship traffic remains sharply depressed. The apparent contradiction has become increasingly important as the United States and Iran continue exchanging attacks in and around the Persian Gulf, and the U.S. Navy plays a central role in keeping commercial energy shipments moving. Wright said Sunday that<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/energy-chief-defends-us-claims-on-hormuz-traffic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 September 6, 2026 (STL.News) U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright defended the Trump administration Sunday against growing questions about the amount of oil actually moving through the Strait of Hormuz, arguing that government figures showing millions of barrels&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4966,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions\/4966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}