{"id":135931,"date":"2026-03-29T07:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/pakistan-secures-iran-deal-to-send-20-ships-through-strait-of-hormuz\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:02:49","slug":"pakistan-secures-iran-deal-to-send-20-ships-through-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/pakistan-secures-iran-deal-to-send-20-ships-through-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan secures Iran deal to send 20 ships through Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD, Mar 29 \u2013<\/strong> <strong>Iran has agreed to allow 20 Pakistani-flagged vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz, in what Islamabad has called a meaningful step towards easing one of the worst energy crises in modern history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ishaq Dar, Pakistan\u2019s foreign minister, announced the move on Saturday, posting on X that two ships would cross daily under the arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>He described Iran\u2019s decision as \u201ca harbinger of peace\u201d, which could help restore stability to a region on the edge, hailing it as a \u201cwelcome and constructive gesture\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, he addressed his post directly to US Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi, a signal that Islamabad, which is engaged in diplomatic efforts to end the war, views the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/27\/nixon-to-trump-pakistans-long-record-as-backchannel-between-rival-powers\">deal as far more than<\/a> a bilateral shipping agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The strait has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/26\/tehranstollbooth-how-iran-picks-who-to-let-through-strait-of-hormuz\">effectively shut<\/a> since the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes on Iran on February 28, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and triggering a war that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/28\/three-journalists-killed-in-israeli-strike-on-marked-press-car-in-lebanon\">killed about 2,000 Iranians<\/a> and more than 1,100 people in Lebanon, and sent shockwaves through global markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Strait of Hormuz is not an oil chokepoint,\u201d former Qatari minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/28\/three-journalists-killed-in-israeli-strike-on-marked-press-car-in-lebanon\">Mohammed Al-Hashemi wrote<\/a> in a column for Al Jazeera this week. \u201cIt is the aortic valve of globalised production \u2013 and like any valve, when it fails, the entire circulatory system collapses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has, in the meantime, turned the strait into something resembling a checkpoint. Ships seeking passage must submit their cargo details, crew lists and destinations to IRGC-approved intermediaries, receive a clearance code, and be escorted through Iranian territorial waters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Mar 29 \u2013 Iran has agreed to allow 20 Pakistani-flagged vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz, in what Islamabad has called a meaningful step towards easing one of the worst energy crises in modern history. Ishaq Dar, Pakistan\u2019s foreign minister, announced the move on Saturday, posting on X that two ships would cross [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}