{"id":157866,"date":"2026-06-13T03:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/157866\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T03:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:35:11","slug":"u-s-shoots-down-iranian-drones-over-strait-of-hormuz-amid-peace-deal-optimism-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/157866\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Shoots Down Iranian Drones Over Strait Of Hormuz Amid Peace Deal Optimism | International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a fresh escalation, Iranian forces launched a new strike on the Strait Of Hormuz as explosions rocked at least two areas of the war-torn country despite ongoing optimism about a deal between Tehran and Washington D.C. According to Reuters, U.S. forces shot down multiple Iranian one-way \u200cattack drones heading toward the Strait of Hormuz. The news agency cited a source familiar with the matter on Friday. This is the latest military flare-up in Hormuz even as Washington and Tehran cite progress in peace talks. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, \u200csaid \u2060the drones had posed a threat to commercial traffic. President Donald Trump had warned \u2060Iran earlier on Friday against firing more drones at ships \u2060attempting to transit the Strait, saying Tehran &#8220;better \u2060get their act together, and FAST!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a fresh escalation, Iranian forces launched a new strike on the Strait Of Hormuz as explosions rocked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[102,49966,3611,101,392,51,933],"class_list":["post-157866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-hormuz","tag-hormuz-action","tag-iranian-drones","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-us-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116740706964362366","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157866","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=157866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}