{"id":77580,"date":"2026-04-22T06:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/77580\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:10:08","slug":"iran-fires-on-container-ship-in-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/77580\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran fires on container ship in Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard opened fire Wednesday on a container ship in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/oil-tanker-iraq-hormuz-a010fadac0a724b82b4994c896e2df62\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, damaging the ship and further raising the stakes as planned ceasefire talks in Pakistan failed to materialize.<\/p>\n<p>The British military\u2019s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said the attack happened around 7:55 a.m. in the strait and targeted a container ship.<\/p>\n<p>The UKMTO said a Guard gunboat did not hail the ship before firing.<\/p>\n<p>It said no one was hurt and there was no environmental impact from the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Iran did not immediately acknowledge the assault.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-war-tifani-sanctioned-ship-bd0190ae22d133d85f331cb300b179bf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seized an Iranian container ship<\/a> after shooting it this past weekend and boarded an oil tanker associated with Iran\u2019s oil trade in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard opened fire Wednesday on a container ship in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2371,328,5529,28248,21969,197,102,17233,768,463,101,200,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-77580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-climate-and-environment","11":"tag-environmental-conservation","12":"tag-f","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-hormuz","15":"tag-i","16":"tag-military-and-defense","17":"tag-religion","18":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","19":"tag-war-and-unrest","20":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116446876344019671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77580","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=77580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}