{"id":76844,"date":"2026-03-27T11:35:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/27\/malaysian-vessels-permitted-to-travel-through-strait-of-hormuz-countrys-pm-says-after-talks-with-iran"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:35:49","slug":"malaysian-vessels-permitted-to-travel-through-strait-of-hormuz-countrys-pm-says-after-iran-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76844","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian vessels permitted to travel through strait of Hormuz, country\u2019s PM says after Iran talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trickle of cargo ships and tankers \u2013 mostly Iranian, but some from Thailand and China \u2013 have made it through the strait since the war began<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/27\/iran-war-live-updates-trump-negotiations-bombing-hormuz-energy-oil-prices-middle-east\">Middle East crisis &#8211; live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Malaysia\u2019s prime minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Thursday he had spoken to the leaders of Iran, Egypt, Turkey and other regional countries and that Malaysian vessels were now being allowed to pass through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/strait-of-hormuz\">strait of Hormuz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a televised address, Anwar thanked Iran\u2019s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, for allowing the passage of Malaysian ships. \u201cWe are now in the process of releasing the Malaysian oil tankers and the workers involved so that they may continue their journey home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/27\/malaysian-vessels-permitted-to-travel-through-strait-of-hormuz-countrys-pm-says-after-talks-with-iran\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trickle of cargo ships and tankers \u2013 mostly Iranian, but some from Thailand and China \u2013 have made it through the strait since the war beganMiddle East crisis &#8211; live updatesMalaysia\u2019s prime minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Thursday he had spoken to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,448,70,449,3511,93,3510],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-iran","category-malaysia","category-oil","category-strait-of-hormuz","category-thailand","category-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76845,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76844\/revisions\/76845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}