{"id":1184,"date":"2026-04-13T14:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2026-09-06T07:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:11:52","slug":"hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: The World\u2019s Most Dangerous Chokepoint State"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"text-lg font-light leading-6 text-gray-950 md:text-xl xl:text-2.5xl\">The Strait of Hormuz may be small but its impact on global power is enormous.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col\">\n<h2 class=\"flex w-full items-center gap-3\"><span class=\"whitespace-nowrap text-2xs font-semibold uppercase text-gray-950 md:text-xs\">By Raghu Kondori, in Visegrad24<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 leading-relaxed\">Iran is not a superpower by conventional economic or military metrics. Decades of sanctions, internal political constraints, and limited technological integration have significantly reduced its overall economic weight in the global system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 leading-relaxed\">Yet geopolitical power does not always correlate with economic size. Geography, energy corridors, and strategic location can generate structural influence far beyond what traditional indicators suggest.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visegrad24.com\/articles\/iran-the-world-s-most-dangerous-chokepoint-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visegrad24<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strait of Hormuz may be small but its impact on global power is enormous. By Raghu Kondori, in Visegrad24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,25,234],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","tag-iran","tag-raghu-kondori","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/Hormuz1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}