{"id":131,"date":"2026-03-03T09:38:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/131\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:38:57","slug":"centcom-says-all-11-iranian-ships-destroyed-in-the-persian-gulf-ukraine-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/131\/","title":{"rendered":"CENTCOM says all 11 Iranian ships destroyed in the Persian Gulf | Ukraine news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Central Command of the United States Armed Forces (CENTCOM) announced the destruction of all 11 Iranian military ships and vessels that were in the Gulf of Oman.<\/p>\n<p>CENTCOM announced this on the social network X, according to the agency.<\/p>\n<p>According to American military officials, at the start of the war between the United States and Israel against Iran in the Gulf there were 11 ships, and today their number stands at zero.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian regime for decades pursued and attacked international vessels in the Gulf of Oman. Those days are past. Freedom of maritime navigation has underpinned the economic prosperity of the United States and the world for more than 80 years. The U.S. armed forces will continue to defend it.<\/p>\n<p> \u2013  American agency<\/p>\n<p>According to official reports, the operation confirmed the disappearance of the Iranian fleet from the region and intensified control over important sea routes.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier statements noted that U.S. President Donald Trump reported the destruction of nine ships of the Iranian fleet and an attack on their headquarters. On the eve, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegset stated that military operations against Iran would not lead to an endless war and that their aim is to destroy missiles, the naval forces, and other security infrastructure of Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central Command of the United States Armed Forces (CENTCOM) announced the destruction of all 11 Iranian military ships&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[141,140,142,143,144,42,39,145,146],"class_list":{"0":"post-131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-persian-gulf","8":"tag-centcom","9":"tag-centcom-iranian-ships-persian-gulf-maritime-security-sea-lanes-us-iran-tensions-naval-confrontation","10":"tag-iranian-ships","11":"tag-maritime-security","12":"tag-naval-confrontation","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-persian-gulf","15":"tag-sea-lanes","16":"tag-us-iran-tensions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","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=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}