{"id":230597,"date":"2026-07-31T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/230597\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:05:10","slug":"us-iran-war-live-updates-iran-claims-attack-on-two-tankers-transiting-strait-of-hormuz-under-us-air-escort-firstpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/230597\/","title":{"rendered":"US Iran War Live Updates: Iran claims attack on two tankers transiting Strait of Hormuz under US &#8216;air escort&#8217; \u2013 Firstpost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has set up a maritime defence alliance to secure navigation around the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthis said last week they were imposing a maritime embargo on Saudi Arabia, the world\u2019s top oil exporter, and claimed attacks targeting Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea and oil infrastructure in the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The narrow maritime artery has been a critical waterway for delivering vast quantities of Saudi crude to the international market, after energy exports from the Gulf were largely choked off by the US-Iranian standoff in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi defence ministry issued a joint statement on behalf of the 14 countries in the alliance: Bahrain, Bangladesh, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Turkey and Yemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia has set up a maritime defence alliance to secure navigation around the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[102,34,251,15686,233,36851,37,101,392,6781,153],"class_list":["post-230597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-iran-israel-us-war","tag-iran-us-talks","tag-iran-us-war-news","tag-iran-us-war-news-live-updates","tag-israel","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-trump","tag-trump-on-iran-war","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117014975364250392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230597","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=230597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}