{"id":28208,"date":"2026-03-10T07:56:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=28208"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:42:39","slug":"oil-blockade-will-continue-until-attacks-end-iran","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/oil-blockade-will-continue-until-attacks-end-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil blockade will continue until attacks end: Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards said this Tuesday they would not allow \u201cone litre of oil\u201d to be shipped \u200bfrom the Middle East if United States (US) and Israeli attacks continue, prompting a warning from US President Donald Trump that the US would hit Iran much harder if it \u200cblocked exports from the vital energy-producing region.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Trump\u2019s comments came after global financial markets seesawed on Monday on concerns that Iran\u2019s security establishment was rallying behind new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and was not prepared to back down any time soon.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Trump said the US had inflicted serious damage on Iran\u2019s military and predicted the conflict would end well before the initial four-week time frame he had laid out. However, he has not defined what victory would look \u200blike.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Israel says its war aim is to overthrow Iran\u2019s system of clerical rule. US officials mainly say Washington aims to destroy Iran\u2019s missile capabilities and nuclear programme, but Trump \u200bhas said the war can end only with a compliant Iranian government.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At least 1 332 Iranian civilians have been killed and thousands wounded since the \u2060US and Israel launched a barrage of air and missile strikes across Iran at the end of February, according to Iran\u2019s UN Ambassador.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Trump warned that US attacks could rise sharply if Iran \u200bsought to block tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, which handles one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil supply.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe will hit them so hard that it will not be possible for them or anybody else \u200bhelping them to ever recover that section of the world,\u201d Trump said at a news conference on Monday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14248,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-28208","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Trump said the US had inflicted serious damage on Iran\u2019s military.","form_embed":"Trump said the US had inflicted serious damage on Iran\u2019s military.","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28219,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28208\/revisions\/28219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=28208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}