{"id":10976,"date":"2012-07-20T07:13:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T14:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10976"},"modified":"2012-07-20T07:13:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T14:13:38","slug":"iranian-parliament-debates-closing-strait-of-hormuz-and-war-escalates-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10976","title":{"rendered":"Iranian parliament debates closing Strait of Hormuz and War escalates in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iranian parliament debates closing oil route<\/strong>
\n20 July, 2012 – Al Akhbar<\/p>\n

A lawmaker said on Friday that about half of the 290 members of Iran’s parliament were backing a bill favoring the closing of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, passageway for a fifth of the world’s oil.<\/p>\n

MP Javad Karimi Qodoosi proposed the legislation, saying the strait is the world’s lock, and the key is in Iran’s hands, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.<\/p>\n

Iranian officials said the final decision was in the hands of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n

Tehran has repeatedly threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz shipping channel, through which 40 percent of the world’s sea-borne oil exports passes, in retaliation for sanctions placed on its crude exports by Western powers.<\/p>\n

The sanctions were imposed over Iran’s nuclear program, which the West suspects is aimed at creating an atomic weapon but Iran says is for peaceful energy purposes.<\/p>\n

Israel has warned it may carry out unilateral strikes against the Islamic republic if sanctions fail to curb Iran’s program.<\/p>\n

Iran has criticized Western hypocrisy over Israel’s own nuclear arsenal, which has avoided international scrutiny due to its privileged status as a US ally. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Iranian parliament debates closing oil route 20 July, 2012 – Al Akhbar A lawmaker said on Friday that about half of the 290 members of Iran’s parliament were backing a bill favoring the closing of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, passageway for a fifth of the world’s oil. MP Javad Karimi Qodoosi proposed the legislation, more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3219],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10978,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions\/10978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}