{"id":19258,"date":"2026-02-20T00:09:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=19258"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:09:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:09:41","slug":"iran-threatens-u-s-as-negotiations-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=19258","title":{"rendered":"Iran Threatens U.S. As Negotiations Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n              <span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and Iran continue, the Islamic nation recently partially closed a vital strait on Tuesday, shutting down one of the world\u2019s most important oil choke points.\n<\/p>\n<h4>Let the IFA community know how to pray for you.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From CNBC:\n<\/p>\n<p>Iran partially closed the\u00a0strategically vital Strait of Hormuz\u00a0on Tuesday, state media reported, citing \u201csecurity precautions\u201d as Tehran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard conducts military drills in the waterway.\n<\/p>\n<p>It comes as the U.S. and Iran\u00a0hold talks in the Swiss city of Geneva, seeking to resolve an ongoing dispute over Tehran\u2019s nuclear program.\n<\/p>\n<p>It marks the first time Iran has shut parts of the Strait of Hormuz,\u00a0a major international waterway\u00a0that links crude producers in the Middle East with key markets across the globe, since U.S. President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0threatened Tehran\u00a0with military action in January.<\/p>\n<p>According to CNBC, the Strait of Hormuz, located between Oman and Iran, is \u201cone of the world\u2019s most important oil choke points.\u201d Around 13 million barrels of crude oil passed through the strait every day in 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>While these military drills\u00a0<em>could<\/em> be innocuous, they are likely part of a larger strategy to intimidate the United States. According to the Daily Caller, Russia and China, outspoken enemies of the U.S., deployed naval vessels to join in these drills in the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, President Trump has previously threatened to attack Iran if a nuclear agreement is not reached. Will all of this taken into account, it seems like Iran\u2019s goal in closing the strait and carrying out military drills was to intimidate and threaten the U.S.\n<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations appear to be progressing, with CNBC noting that Iran and the U.S. reached an understanding of the \u201cguiding principles\u201d during recent talk. However, this progress does not mean a deal with be made soon, as there is still more work to be done.\n<\/p>\n<p>As negotiations continue, let\u2019s pray for a favorable outcome. Let\u2019s also pray that any attempt from Iran to harm the U.S. would fail!\n<\/p>\n<h4>Share your prayers and scriptures below.<\/h4>\n<p>(Excerpt from CNBC. Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok and Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=49519909)<br \/>\n&#13;\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes As nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and Iran continue, the Islamic nation recently partially closed a vital strait on Tuesday, shutting down one of the world\u2019s most important oil choke points. Let the IFA community know how to pray for you. \u00a0 From CNBC: Iran partially closed the\u00a0strategically vital Strait of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[573,3825,5709,891,2891],"class_list":{"0":"post-19258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-prayer","8":"tag-continue","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-negotiations","11":"tag-threatens","12":"tag-u-s"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}