{"id":92857,"date":"2026-05-01T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/92857\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:42:13","slug":"iran-eyeing-mine-carrying-dolphins-to-attack-us-warships-in-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/92857\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran eyeing mine-carrying dolphins to attack US warships in Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran is considering using dolphins armed with mines to blow open the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/28\/world-news\/irans-hormuz-toll-plan-falters-as-gulf-nations-side-with-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, which has been under a financially crippling <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/29\/us-news\/trump-weighing-new-strikes-touts-genius-blockade-until-iran-comes-to-the-table\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US military blockade<\/a> for weeks, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>While the tense <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/23\/opinion\/trumps-iran-cease-fire-is-an-increasingly-risky-bet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extended ceasefire with the US<\/a> holds, a growing number of Iranian hard-liners believe that the financial crisis sparked by the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/29\/world-news\/trump-orders-aides-to-prepare-for-extended-blockade-on-iran-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US blocking Iran\u2019s oil exports<\/a> amounts to an act of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/29\/opinion\/the-secret-iran-war-suppressed-by-the-regime\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">war<\/a> and have called for restarting military action.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.59006211;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39252112\" width=\"938\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2003-multinational-team-consisting-naval-126772041.jpg\" alt=\"A dolphin with its mouth open on a transfer mat, with a person in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-39252112\"  \/>Iran is considering using dolphins armed with mines to blow open the Strait of Hormuz. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>That military action could include unleashing previously unused weapons to attack US warships deployed in the region \u2014 including mine-carrying dolphins, according to Iranian officials,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-us-blockade-oil-641b89f2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> the Wall Street Journal reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran could also send submarines into the waterway, according to the WSJ, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/19\/world-news\/islamic-guard-takes-full-control-of-iran-sidelines-moderates-analysts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Islamic Revolutionary Guard<\/a> has already threatened to cut key phone cables running through the Strait, which could wreak havoc on global internet communications to escalate tensions further.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.58268934;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39252116\" width=\"934\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/handout-image-provided-third-party-126027781.jpg\" alt=\"USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in the Arabian Sea with an F-35C stealth fighter taking off.\" class=\"wp-image-39252116\"  \/>The Strait of Hormuz has been under a financially crippling US military blockade for weeks. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/29\/us-news\/trump-says-iran-choking-like-a-stuffed-pig-on-strait-of-hormuz-blockade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blockade<\/a> is increasingly viewed in Tehran not as a substitute for war, but as a different manifestation of it,\u201d Hamidreza Azizi, a visiting fellow specializing in the Middle East at SWP, a Berlin-based research institute, told WSJ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, Iranian decision makers may soon come to see renewed conflict as less costly than continuing to endure a prolonged blockade.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran is considering using dolphins armed with mines to blow open the Strait of Hormuz, which has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3067,32804,102,34,7174,81,101,933,3483],"class_list":{"0":"post-92857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-attacks","9":"tag-dolphins","10":"tag-hormuz","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-mines","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","15":"tag-us-news","16":"tag-warships"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116499614516563635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92857","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=92857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}