{"id":60105,"date":"2026-05-05T05:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/60105\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:30:14","slug":"multiple-vessels-hit-or-destroyed-uae-port-hit-as-us-and-iran-trade-fire-in-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/60105\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple vessels hit or destroyed, UAE port hit as US and Iran trade fire in Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper was careful to reframe the nature of the American operation on Monday. There are no ship-by-ship &#8220;escorts,&#8221; he said &#8211; rather, the US has assembled &#8220;multiple layers&#8221; of protection including ships, helicopters, aircraft, airborne early warning and electronic warfare. &#8220;I think we have a much better defensive arrangement in this process,&#8221; he said. The distinction matters for insurers: a layered defensive perimeter is harder to price than a named-vessel convoy, and the legal and underwriting implications of vessels operating inside a US-defined &#8220;enhanced security area&#8221; without a formal escort remain untested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper was careful to reframe the nature of the American operation on Monday. There are no ship-by-ship &#8220;escorts,&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5649,7142,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-60105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zurich","8":"tag-iran-war","9":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","10":"tag-zurich"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116520329297569178","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}