{"id":80601,"date":"2026-05-21T02:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/strait-cash-iran-revives-a-centuries-old-maritime-business-model\/80601\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:33:18","slug":"strait-cash-iran-revives-a-centuries-old-maritime-business-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/strait-cash-iran-revives-a-centuries-old-maritime-business-model\/80601\/","title":{"rendered":"Strait cash: Iran revives a centuries-old maritime business model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Craig-Bennett on what Iran can learn from the kings who monetised the Baltic. \u201cHistory doesn\u2019t repeat itself, but it often rhymes\u201d Mark Twain The Strait of Hormuz has been pretty much closed for more than 80 days now. Iran wants to control the strait and charge a toll. The US doesn\u2019t want them to. &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Craig-Bennett on what Iran can learn from the kings who monetised the Baltic. \u201cHistory doesn\u2019t repeat itself, but it often rhymes\u201d Mark Twain The Strait of Hormuz has been pretty much closed for more than 80 days now. Iran wants to control the strait and charge a toll. The US doesn\u2019t want them to. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[13,2840,32448,422,91,41,5273,15796,2966],"class_list":["post-80601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-port-news","tag-business","tag-cash","tag-centuriesold","tag-denmark","tag-iran","tag-maritime","tag-model","tag-revives","tag-strait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/80602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}