{"id":94570,"date":"2026-04-18T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94570"},"modified":"2026-04-18T04:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:50:00","slug":"news-and-analysis-4-18-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94570","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 4\/18\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Virtually nothing has changed yet, and the markets overreacted to the announcements&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/04\/17\/iran-white-house-strait-hormuz-completely-open-but-definitely-remains-closed\/\">Iran and White House Say the Strait of Hormuz Is \u2018Completely Open.\u2019 But It Definitely Isn\u2019t\u2014at Least for Now<\/a> (Fortune)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;Tehran put limits on the Strait of Hormuz\u2019s opening, as the United States issued a new sanctions exemption on the sale of Russian oil&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/04\/17\/hormuz-strait-reopens-iran-us-war\/\">Iran Disputes Claims of New Agreements with Trump<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"lora text-[17px] leading-[1.4] lg:text-[18px] xl:text-[20px] text-descriptionColor\">&#8220;International flights are now allowed to transit through eastern part of Iran&#8217;s airspace, says Civil Aviation Organization<\/span>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/world\/iran-announces-partial-reopening-of-airspace\/3910345\">Iran Announces Partial Reopening of Airspace<\/a> (Andalou Ajansi)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[T]his war has demonstrated how the superpower that has always tried to cloak its use of power with legitimacy and, as a last resort, has become a disruptive and crude rogue state&#8221; &#8212; Stephen Walt, professor of international relations at the Harvard Kennedy School:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Foreign-Policy\/2026\/0417\/iran-war-trump-american-power-perceptions\">What Trump\u2019s Handling of the Iran War Has Done to Perceptions of US Power<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The question is, how will markets continue to cope with increased volatility that seems to be happening on a daily basis?&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/18\/iran-war-inflation-prices-energy-trump-economy-end.html\">We Spoke to Dozens of Central Bankers, Policymakers and Politicians About the Iran War \u2014 These Are Their Biggest Fears for the Global Economy<\/a> (CNBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5818425-us-military-iran-rescue\/\">military operation<\/a> has exposed a <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/5773559-trump-war-iran-israel-republican\/\">deepening rift<\/a> among the GOP, with some lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5818652-iran-gop-trump\/\">growing wary<\/a> about how <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5783947-trump-iran-conflict-timeline\/\">long it could last<\/a>, as Trump offers <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5799179-trump-shifts-iran-funding\/\">conflicting messages<\/a> on whether the U.S. has achieved its stated objectives&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5836355-collins-tillis-trump-iran-war-powers-resolution\/\">Collins, Tillis Signal Shift on Trump War Powers if Iran War Hits 60-day Mark<\/a> (The Hill)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Virtually nothing has changed yet, and the markets overreacted to the announcements&#8221; &#8230; Iran and White House Say the Strait of Hormuz Is \u2018Completely Open.\u2019 But It Definitely Isn\u2019t\u2014at Least for Now (Fortune) &#8230; &#8220;Tehran put limits on the Strait of Hormuz\u2019s opening, as the United States issued a new sanctions exemption on the sale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94574,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94570\/revisions\/94574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}