{"id":103282,"date":"2019-07-25T15:50:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/25\/navy-to-guard-uk-ships-in-strait-of-hormuz-mod-says\/"},"modified":"2019-07-25T15:50:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:50:16","slug":"navy-to-guard-uk-ships-in-strait-of-hormuz-mod-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=103282","title":{"rendered":"Navy to guard UK ships in strait of Hormuz, MoD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Defence says it will defend freedom of navigation after Iran seized a tankerThe Royal Navy will accompany British-flagged vessels through the strait of Hormuz to defend freedom of navigation after Iran seized a tanker earlier this month, the UK ministry of defence has said.\u201cThe Royal Navy has been tasked to accompany British-flagged ships through the strait of Hormuz, either individually or in groups, should sufficient notice be given of their passage,\u201d said a British government spokesman in a statement. \u201cFreedom of navigation is crucial for the global trading system and world economy and we will do all we can to defend it.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/jul\/25\/navy-to-guard-uk-ships-in-strait-of-hormuz-mod-iran\" target=\"_blank\">Navy to guard UK ships in strait of Hormuz, MoD says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Defence says it will defend freedom of navigation after Iran seized a tankerThe Royal Navy will accompany British-flagged vessels through the strait of Hormuz to defend freedom of navigation after Iran seized a tanker earlier this month, the UK ministry of defence has said.\u201cThe Royal Navy has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}