{"id":285290,"date":"2026-09-09T12:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/285290\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T12:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:17:20","slug":"fuel-oil-tanker-in-iraqi-waters-struck-by-drone-no-casualties-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/285290\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel oil tanker in Iraqi waters struck by drone, no casualties reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A Panama-flagged tanker carrying 2 million barrels of Iraqi fuel oil was struck by a drone in Iraqi territorial waters on Wednesday, two port officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi rescue boats extinguished a fire aboard the tanker, New Andros, and there were no reports of casualties, port officials told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday that a maritime restricted area would extend from Chabahar in Iran into parts of the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea, with its precise coordinates to be announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The announcement follows comments on Sunday by Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran&#8217;s Supreme National Security Council, who was quoted by state media as saying Iran would establish a restricted zone outside the Strait of Hormuz in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Panama-flagged tanker carrying 2 million barrels of Iraqi fuel oil was struck by a drone in Iraqi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[711,34,94,424,46,213,798],"class_list":["post-285290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-drone","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-irgc","tag-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps","tag-oil","tag-tanker"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117241042873195990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285290","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=285290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}