{"id":284949,"date":"2026-09-09T07:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/284949\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T07:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:58:13","slug":"the-usa-bomb-five-iranian-oil-tankers-and-tehran-responds-with-attacks-in-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/284949\/","title":{"rendered":"The USA bomb five Iranian oil tankers and Tehran responds with attacks in Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might be interested in<\/p>\n<p>        <a class=\"seo-links__link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.ara.cat\/society\/trapero-resigns-as-director-of-the-police_1_5844266.html\" title=\"Trapero resigns as director of the police and Ferran L\u00f3pez will replace him\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trapero resigns as director of the police and Ferran L\u00f3pez will replace him<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragragh--paywall\">\n        WashingtonThe United States announced this Tuesday the destruction of five Iranian oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman and near Kharg Island in retaliation for Tehran&#8217;s alleged attempts to attack one of the US Navy ships, in a new episode of hostilities between the two countries after the conflict escalated again last week. In retaliation, the ayatollahs responded to the sinking of the ships by launching &#8220;heavy missiles&#8221; against a US base in Jordan. In a statement, the US military command detailed that it &#8220;ordered the crews to abandon the ships before firing.&#8221; It also stated that the attack comes two days after a US military ship evaded a missile attack by the Revolutionary Guard, which ended without injuries. <\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"\" class=\"ara-button secondary rounded empty body-paragragh--paywall__cta\"><br \/>\n                Read it all<br \/>\n            <\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n        The Iranian response came in the form of a missile attack against a US military base in Jordan. Jordanian air defense systems were able to intercept 18 of the 20 ballistic missiles launched from Iran, and the other two impacted in unpopulated areas without causing any injuries. The Revolutionary Guard also claimed to have attacked two US military ships and eight oil tankers in the Gulf, after having alerted their crews, near the ports of Kuwait and Bahrain. <\/p>\n<p>\n        After a month of August of relative calm, and despite the White House insisting that it is focusing on economic warfare to topple Iran, in recent weeks the clashes <a href=\"https:\/\/en.ara.cat\/international\/iran-responds-to-united-states-attacks-with-new-bombings_1_5837658.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have not stopped escalating. <\/a>More than half a year after US President Donald Trump started the war, and two months after the diplomatic fiasco in Versailles, where a ceasefire was announced to give space to diplomacy, the conflict remains stalled. Oil prices have risen back to July levels, reaching one hundred dollars a barrel in Asian markets. <\/p>\n<p>\n        The new episode comes after Washington and Tehran were involved in a crossfire last week in which US forces bombed the south of the country. Subsequently, the Iranians accused the US of having committed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.ara.cat\/international\/iran-responds-to-united-states-attacks-with-new-bombings_1_5837658.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;war crimes&#8221; after one of its missiles killed four people at a wedding<\/a> that was being held in the south of the country. According to Iranian media, among the four dead at the wedding being held in Sirik were a 4-year-old child, Amir-Ali Karimi, and a 16-year-old teenager, Mohammad Mollahi.<\/p>\n<p>\n        Meanwhile, the southern regional front is also heating up. On Tuesday, Yemen&#8217;s Houthi movement, an ally of Iran, attacked four cities in Saudi Arabia, resulting in more than 70 injuries and damage to several oil facilities. Riyadh has already stated that it will respond. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You might be interested in Trapero resigns as director of the police and Ferran L\u00f3pez will replace him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[592,3067,16820,2871,595,34,361,654,213,37030,1429,69,596,3892],"class_list":["post-284949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-and","tag-attacks","tag-bomb","tag-five","tag-in","tag-iran","tag-iranian","tag-jordan","tag-oil","tag-responds","tag-tankers","tag-tehran","tag-the","tag-with"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117240024439037629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284949","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=284949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}