{"id":101091,"date":"2026-05-06T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/101091\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:08:10","slug":"us-navy-strikes-iranian-flagged-ship-trying-to-break-strait-of-hormuz-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/101091\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy strikes Iranian-flagged ship trying to break Strait of Hormuz blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">US forces attacked an Iranian vessel in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday that was attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Iranian-flagged oil tanker attempted to bypass the ongoing blockade of the Strait of Hormuz when it was struck by the US Navy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">American forces issued multiple warnings, which were ignored, before enforcing blockade measures by firing 20 mm cannon rounds at the ship&#8217;s rudder from a US Navy F\/A-18 Super Hornet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">CENTCOM said the US blockade remains in full effect, as talks with Iran to potentially end the ongoing conflict continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was confident that the US was &#8220;closing in on a deal&#8221; with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US forces attacked an Iranian vessel in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday that was attempting to cross&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[11154,141,102,34,217,181,212,18869,101,256],"class_list":["post-101091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-blockade","tag-centcom","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-iran-israel","tag-oman","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-ship-attacks","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116529208009094370","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}