{"id":313828,"date":"2026-03-09T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=313828"},"modified":"2026-03-09T06:57:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:57:49","slug":"iran-closes-strait-of-hormuz-strikes-u-s-bases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/03\/iran-closes-strait-of-hormuz-strikes-u-s-bases\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz &#038; Strikes U.S. Bases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>28 Feb 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a moment of cascading escalation \u2014 with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announcing the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and retaliatory strikes reported against U.S. military installations across the region \u2014 former CIA analyst Ray McGovern provides\u00a0a sobering assessment of what he described as \u201cuncharted territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McGovern, a veteran intelligence officer who briefed presidents, dismantles the prevailing narrative that war with Iran was inevitable \u2014 or justified. He revisits the unanimous 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iran halted any nuclear weapons program in 2003, and notes that even recent U.S. intelligence leadership reaffirmed that assessment. In his view, the rush toward confrontation is not rooted in verified intelligence, but in ideology, hubris, and political calculation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IRAN CLOSES STRAIT OF HORMUZ &amp; STRIKES U.S. BASES | RAY MCGOVERN INTERVIEW\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Uvz_B3ccrM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>TRANSCEND VIDEOS <\/em>STAY POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS BEFORE BEING ARCHIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 Feb 2026 &#8211; In a moment of cascading escalation \u2014 with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announcing the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and retaliatory strikes reported against U.S. military installations across the region \u2014 former CIA analyst Ray McGovern provides\u00a0a sobering assessment of what he described as \u201cuncharted territory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[417,100,3281,950,742,88,3925,767,475,2571,3924,818,1190,2159,880,99,249,2200,70,481,886],"class_list":["post-313828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-bullying","tag-direct-violence","tag-evil-empire","tag-invasion","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-khamenei","tag-middle-east","tag-netanyahu","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-peace-hoax","tag-proxy-war","tag-regime-change","tag-rogue-states","tag-state-terrorism","tag-structural-violence","tag-trump","tag-us-empire","tag-usa","tag-warfare","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313871,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313828\/revisions\/313871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}