{"id":109322,"date":"2026-05-12T01:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/109322\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T01:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:12:10","slug":"dramatic-strike-us-forces-disable-iranian-tankers-in-gulf-of-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/109322\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic strike: US forces disable Iranian tankers in Gulf of Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:NY Post;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"NY Post\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"194\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2024-01\/46c6ce20-b635-11ee-babf-0468df94f866.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Mon, May 11, 2026 at 8:33 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"651\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_ny_post_us_news_articles_123\/ef243d8cf2b02ff5bb0d3643fb42706a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>US Central Command released a video of <a data-ylk=\"slk:strikes on two empty Iranian tankers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/us-forces-hit-tankers-trying-134431465.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">strikes on two empty Iranian tankers<\/a> attempting to break past the American blockade on Tehran\u2019s ports. In it, a US Navy F\/A-18 Super Hornet \u201cdisabled both tankers after firing precision munitions into their smokestacks,\u201d stopping the vessels from continuing to Iran, CENTCOM said in a post to X. A third ship was stopped was stopped by when an F\/A Super Hornet \u201cdisabled the unladen oil tanker\u2019s rudder by firing several rounds from a 20mm cannon gun,\u201d the combatant command said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mon, May 11, 2026 at 8:33 PM UTC US Central Command released a video of strikes on two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[34,25797,39,37626,35406,75,736],"class_list":{"0":"post-109322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-persian-gulf","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-iranian-tankers","10":"tag-persian-gulf","11":"tag-precision-munitions","12":"tag-super-hornet","13":"tag-us-central-command","14":"tag-us-navy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116558951161871639","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109322","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=109322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}