{"id":193577,"date":"2026-07-07T03:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/193577\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T03:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:18:08","slug":"tanker-set-ablaze-after-hit-by-projectile-in-strait-of-hormuz-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/193577\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanker set ablaze after hit by projectile in Strait of Hormuz region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">An \u201cunknown projectile\u201d struck and caused a fire on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, British maritime security agency UKMTO said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The incident occurred near one of the world\u2019s most important energy shipping routes, despite a ceasefire between the United States and Iran and ongoing efforts to secure a lasting peace agreement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said the incident took place about 8 nautical miles (15km) east of Limah, Oman.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cA tanker has reported being hit by an unknown projectile on the port side causing a fire, whilst travelling southbound,\u201d UKMTO said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The agency said there were no reports of casualties or environmental damage.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cVessels are advised to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity to UKMTO,\u201d the agency added, saying authorities were investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An \u201cunknown projectile\u201d struck and caused a fire on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[488,359,34,57564,49,181,39,101,69,2483,28313,51,1730,1705,2741],"class_list":["post-193577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-asia","tag-gulf","tag-iran","tag-limah","tag-middle-east","tag-oman","tag-persian-gulf","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-ukmto","tag-united-kingdom-maritime-trade-operations","tag-united-states","tag-us-energy-information-administration","tag-washington","tag-x"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193577","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=193577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}