{"id":5711,"date":"2026-10-07T08:28:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/rubio-iran-has-lost-control-of-strait-of-hormuz\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:28:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:28:56","slug":"rubio-iran-has-lost-control-of-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/rubio-iran-has-lost-control-of-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio: Iran Has Lost Control of Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FgVqmswWvyqA%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"US: Iran has &quot;lost complete control&quot; over Strait of Hormuz\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gVqmswWvyqA?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> ATHENS, Greece \u2013 October 7, 2026 (STL.News) U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that Iran has \u201clost complete control\u201d of the Strait of Hormuz, pointing to a sharp recovery in oil shipments through and around the strategic waterway despite continuing attacks on commercial vessels. \u201cThe Straits of Hormuz are open. There\u2019s almost as much oil flowing out now as there was before this conflict began. So they\u2019ve lost complete control of the Straits,\u201d Rubio told reporters during a visit to Athens. Rubio also said Iran\u2019s economy was in \u201ctotal and complete freefall,\u201d arguing that U.S. sanctions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/rubio-iran-has-lost-control-of-strait-of-hormuz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Greece \u2013 October 7, 2026 (STL.News) U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that Iran has \u201clost complete control\u201d of the Strait of Hormuz, pointing to a sharp recovery in oil shipments through and around the strategic waterway&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5711","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\/5711","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=5711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5713,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions\/5713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}