{"id":5722,"date":"2026-03-31T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/live-updates-iranian-parliament-commission-approves-hormuz-toll-plan-cgtn\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:16:00","slug":"live-updates-iranian-parliament-commission-approves-hormuz-toll-plan-cgtn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/live-updates-iranian-parliament-commission-approves-hormuz-toll-plan-cgtn\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Iranian parliament commission approves Hormuz toll plan &#8211; CGTN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian state media reported Monday that a parliamentary commission had approved plans to impose tolls on vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway vital to oil and gas shipments that has been effectively closed due to the Middle East conflict.<br \/>US President Donald Trump warned on Monday that the US would obliterate Iran&#8217;s energy plants and oil wells if Tehran does not open the Strait of Hormuz.<br \/>Trump also said that the US is in &#8221; serious discussions&#8221; with Iran, while Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Iran had not been involved in negotiations with the US since the start of the conflict.<br \/>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned attacks on UN peacekeepers as three peacekeepers were killed in two separate incidents in southern Lebanon in Israeli strikes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipAFBVV95cUxPLXc5SnNhWXhXQ1NrdkoyanNYWk1fM3dtVTd2RVY3RHhGb19Ba0U1M1docVZhZ2lFQVB5OEQ5Nzl5cGdoQnpNX1lyRVBSLVhpV3VZblEwVEFDVlZIbFpMMlNTdnQwZzBYVzg3c2VzZWJaX2RYaW1FRXZJY2NjTU1TcWhFNWlKOWlzZTItb3ZyS25fVm0wd2ltLUowS1p2aFRCSVlRWA?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian state media reported Monday that a parliamentary commission had approved plans to impose tolls on vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway vital to oil and gas shipments that has been effectively closed due to the Middle East conflict.US President Donald Trump warned on Monday that the US would obliterate Iran&#8217;s energy plants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}