{"id":19457,"date":"2026-03-24T05:33:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=19457"},"modified":"2026-03-24T05:33:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:33:53","slug":"zolfaqari-iran-sees-no-need-to-mine-strait-of-hormuz-controls-it-powerfully-and-intelligently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/03\/24\/zolfaqari-iran-sees-no-need-to-mine-strait-of-hormuz-controls-it-powerfully-and-intelligently\/","title":{"rendered":"Zolfaqari: Iran sees no need to mine Strait of Hormuz, controls it powerfully and intelligently"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters, one of Iran\u2019s principal military commands has recently said that Iran \u201cpowerfully and intelligently\u201d controls the Strait of Hormuz and therefore there is no need to lay mines there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tasnim News Agency, an Iranian state outlet, on Monday night, Zolfaqari, while asserting there is no requirement to mine the strait, added that Iran\u2019s armed forces will, if necessary, employ any available means to ensure the security of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that, by dominating \u201cAmerican and Zionist enemies\u201d and cooperating with regional countries, Iran is capable of securing the Persian Gulf and that external, non\u2011regional countries have no right to intervene in this responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior Iranian military and government officials had previously dismissed reports suggesting the Strait of Hormuz had been closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters, one of Iran\u2019s principal military commands has recently said that Iran \u201cpowerfully and intelligently\u201d controls the Strait of Hormuz and therefore there is no need to lay mines there. Tasnim News Agency, an Iranian state outlet, on Monday night, Zolfaqari, while asserting there is no requirement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19459,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19457\/revisions\/19459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}