{"id":179630,"date":"2026-06-27T02:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T02:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/179630\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T02:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T02:23:11","slug":"back-to-war-u-s-strikes-iranian-missile-positions-after-tehran-attacks-cargo-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/179630\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to War? U.S. Strikes Iranian Missile Positions After Tehran Attacks Cargo Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fa-18_sup_1454495144.jpg\" alt=\"Back to War? U.S. Strikes Iranian Missile Positions After Tehran Attacks Cargo Ship\" title=\"A U.S. F\/A-18 Super Hornet taking off from an aircraft carrier in the Gulf\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A U.S. F\/A-18 Super Hornet taking off from an aircraft carrier in the Gulf<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Iran 60-day truce appears to be straining as American warplanes struck Iranian coastal radar, missile and drone storage locations on the night of June 26, in response to Iran attacking a Singapore-flagged cargo carrier that was exiting the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A CentCom statement said:<\/p>\n<p>U.S. aircraft conducted strikes against Iran June 26 as a powerful response to yesterday\u2019s attack on a commercial ship that was transitioning the Strait of Hormuz. Iran hit M\/V Ever Lovely on June 25 with a one-way attack drone. The vessel was exiting the Strait of Hormuz along the Omani coast at the time of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The unwarranted aggression against commercial shipping clearly violates the ceasefire. Furthermore, Iran\u2019s dangerous behaviour undermines freedom of navigation as commerce increasingly flows through the vital international trade corridor.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/strait_of_1782525377.jpg\" alt=\"Back to War? U.S. Strikes Iranian Missile Positions After Tehran Attacks Cargo Ship\" title=\"Strait of Hormuz chokepoint\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Strait of Hormuz chokepoint<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s stand:<\/p>\n<p>Kazem Qaribabadi, Iran\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister, wrote on X that safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz \u201ccannot be guaranteed under ambiguous arrangements, parallel routes, or decision-making processes that disregard Iran\u2019s considerations as the coastal state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Qaribabadi stressed that any credible framework must be based on coordination with Iran and the provisions of Article 5 of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding. Otherwise, he warned, the designated parallel route would be suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Following Iran\u2019s warning and an attack on a vessel deemed to have violated the established framework, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) suspended its operation to evacuate stranded ships in recent months. Nevertheless, maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remained active in both directions on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A U.S. F\/A-18 Super Hornet taking off from an aircraft carrier in the Gulf The U.S. Iran 60-day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,102,34,19924,54157,69,10178],"class_list":["post-179630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-centcom","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-iran-missile","tag-ship-attack","tag-tehran","tag-us-strike"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116819696454448120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179630","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=179630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}