{"id":223315,"date":"2026-07-26T11:18:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T11:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/223315\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T11:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T11:18:44","slug":"watch-u-s-forces-board-commercial-tanker-amid-iran-blockade-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/223315\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: U.S. forces board commercial tanker amid Iran blockade | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US has released new footage of forces boarding a commercial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/tanker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tanker<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/blockade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blockade<\/a> continues.<\/p>\n<p>The US military said it boarded a tanker in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/arabian-sea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arabian Sea<\/a> on Saturday (July 25) as part of its naval blockade of Iranian ports, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The US Central Command (Centcom) said US forces have so far redirected 12 commercial vessels attempting to bypass the blockade, disabled two vessels that failed to comply, and boarded two ships for verification.<\/p>\n<p>A Centcom spokesman said: \u201cAmerican forces remain highly vigilant, focused, lethal, and ready.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US has released new footage of forces boarding a commercial tanker in Iran as the blockade continues.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[4194,62296,62298,62294,2713,13360,3077,50625,50627,2982,2978,6243,62293,5084,28829,34,48789,31381,28834,62297,6479,201,62295,2576,1023,48765,50626,256,33836],"class_list":["post-223315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-argentina","tag-argentina-national-soccer-team","tag-argentina-national-team","tag-atlanta-georgia","tag-coach","tag-color-image","tag-england","tag-england-national-soccer-team","tag-england-national-team","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026","tag-georgia-us-state","tag-horizontal","tag-international-team-soccer","tag-iran","tag-looking","tag-manager","tag-match-sport","tag-mercedes-benz-stadium","tag-national-team","tag-photography","tag-semifinal-round","tag-soccer","tag-sport","tag-thomas-tuchel","tag-united-kingdom-national-team","tag-usa","tag-world-sports-championship"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223315","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=223315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}