{"id":283971,"date":"2026-09-08T17:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/283971\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T17:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:40:16","slug":"iran-guards-claim-capture-of-one-of-smartest-us-submarines-in-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/283971\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Guards claim capture of \u2018one of smartest\u2019 US submarines in Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content\">Iran on Tuesday captured an unmanned <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/us-top-news\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"US submarine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US submarine<\/a> in the strategic <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/strait-of-hormuz\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Strait of Hormuz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, which Tehran has blockaded during the months-long war in <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/west-asia\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"West Asia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">West Asia<\/a>, Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) claimed.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IRAN-US-ISRAEL-WAR-22_1788880307823_d35da3d7-a345-4052-9294-36b59ee0e83a_1788880316469_269bf884-a80c.jpeg\" alt=\"Vessels transit the Hormuz Strait off the coast of Iran's southern port city of Bandar Abbas. (AFP\/Representational Image)\" title=\"Vessels transit the Hormuz Strait off the coast of Iran's southern port city of Bandar Abbas. (AFP\/Representational Image)\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" loading=\"eager\"\/>Vessels transit the Hormuz Strait off the coast of Iran&#8217;s southern port city of Bandar Abbas. (AFP\/Representational Image)<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">&#8220;The IRGC naval forces captured one of the most modern, unmanned, and smart submarines of the US terrorist army at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz in a complex intelligence and operational action at dawn today,&#8221; the Guards said in a statement broadcast by state television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">The US has not yet commented on the reported development so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">The <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/irgc\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"IRGC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IRGC<\/a> said it would release photographs and detailed video footage of the captured US asset in the coming hours, state-backed Press TV reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Iranian media said the unmanned underwater vehicle was designed for tasks including &#8220;subsurface reconnaissance and surveillance, seabed mapping, mine detection and inspection of submarine cables and pipelines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hormuz Strait still under blockade<\/p>\n<p>Iran has kept the Strait of Hormuz under blockade since the war began in late February. The key waterway normally handles around a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas exports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">The <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/united-states\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"United States\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">United States<\/a> has responded by imposing a counter-blockade on Iranian ports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Tehran says it intends to collect fees from ships passing through the strait to pay for services such as environmental protection. Washington strongly opposes the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran on Tuesday captured an unmanned US submarine in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran has blockaded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,77149,222,101,224,77147,77148],"class_list":["post-283971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-iran","tag-iran-captures-us-submarine","tag-iran-war-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-us-iran-war","tag-us-submarine","tag-us-submarine-captured"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117236650607088467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283971","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=283971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}