{"id":180162,"date":"2026-06-27T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/180162\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T11:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:52:08","slug":"uk-authority-tanker-hit-by-projectile-in-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/180162\/","title":{"rendered":"UK authority: Tanker hit by projectile in Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An unidentified projectile hit a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, the UK Maritime Safety and Trade Operations (UKMTO) centre reported on Saturday, citing the vessel&#8217;s captain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The impact caused damage to the tanker&#8217;s bridge but there were no injuries, said the British authority, which provides 24\/7 monitoring and alerts to threats and emergencies on global shipping routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following the start of the US-Israeli attacks on Iran on February 28, Tehran largely blocked the vital transport corridor through threats and attacks in early March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The US responded with its own naval blockade of ships entering or leaving Iranian ports. Iran and the US agreed last week to a temporary end to hostilities and the lifting of blockades. However, shipping traffic through the strait remains limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unidentified projectile hit a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, the UK Maritime Safety and Trade Operations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[2363,50513,39,9852,101,54712],"class_list":["post-180162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-arabian-gulf","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-persian-gulf","tag-projectile","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-uk-maritime-safety"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116821933545835272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180162","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=180162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}