{"id":280270,"date":"2026-09-06T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/280270\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:18:08","slug":"us-military-strikes-three-iranian-oil-tankers-in-the-gulf-of-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/280270\/","title":{"rendered":"US military strikes three Iranian oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Persian Gulf viewed from Busher city, Iran (Photo: XNA\/VNA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/06.09_am_09.jpg\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Persian Gulf viewed from Busher city, Iran (Photo: XNA\/VNA)<\/p>\n<p>The US forces \u201cpermanently disabled the IRGC crude oil carriers M\/T Downy off the coast of Kharg Island and M\/T Stark 1 near Jask,\u201d US Central Command said in a statement Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the Persian Gulf, according to CENTCOM, an unladen crude tanker called the M\/T Kylo was \u201ccompletely destroyed\u201d after being hit multiple times to render it inoperable.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Saturday, Iranian news agencies said a tanker came under missile attack by US forces near Kharg Island. The tanker was hit by four projectiles fired by US forces, Tasnim reported. There were no casualties, the agency added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Persian Gulf viewed from Busher city, Iran (Photo: XNA\/VNA) The US forces \u201cpermanently disabled the IRGC crude oil&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[141,7019,76381,424,39,76380,19798,19799],"class_list":["post-280270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-centcom","tag-destroyed","tag-fire-on-us-warships","tag-irgc","tag-persian-gulf","tag-three-oil-tankers","tag-vov","tag-vovworld"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117224060533924270","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280270","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=280270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}