{"id":280815,"date":"2026-09-06T19:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T19:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/280815\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T19:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T19:26:10","slug":"iran-claims-a-strike-on-a-us-ship-in-the-strait-of-hormuz-but-the-us-denies-it-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/280815\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran claims a strike on a US ship in the Strait of Hormuz but the US denies it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"FYHOSNVVH5GOREWTMQFN3KWYMY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">CAIRO \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> said Sunday it struck an unmanned U.S. vessel trying to enter the Strait of Hormuz, a claim that the U.S. military dismissed as a \u201ctotal lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"GFBWTVME25EVXA4ZMWCUOYJZME\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The purported attack came a day after the U.S. military said forces <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-war-oil-tankers-b3650799901c56a6deeca962cbaa4109\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">struck three Iranian oil tankers<\/a> in response to Navy warships being targeted with ballistic missiles. Experts called it a dangerous escalation after Iran\u2019s previous attacks at sea targeted commercial shipping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAIRO \u2014 Iran said Sunday it struck an unmanned U.S. vessel trying to enter the Strait of Hormuz,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[328,197,1829,34,196,768,9690,463,200,771,82],"class_list":["post-280815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-business","tag-general-news","tag-international-agreements","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-military-and-defense","tag-ml-iran-us","tag-religion","tag-war-and-unrest","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117225742847847129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280815","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=280815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}