{"id":93229,"date":"2026-05-01T18:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/93229\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T18:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:08:17","slug":"iran-eyeing-mine-carrying-dolphins-to-attack-us-warships-in-strait-of-hormuz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/93229\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran eyeing mine-carrying dolphins to attack US warships in Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NY<\/a>Fri, May 1, 2026 at 1:22 PM UTC\"An<\/p>\n

An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in the Arabian Sea with an F-35C stealth fighter taking off, Image 2 shows A dolphin with its mouth open on a transfer mat, with a person in the background<\/p>\n

Iran is considering using dolphins armed with mines to blow open the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, which has been under a financially crippling US military blockade<\/a> for weeks, according to a report.<\/p>\n

While the tense extended cease-fire with the US<\/a> holds, a growing number of Iranian hardliners believe that the financial crisis sparked by the US blocking Iran\u2019s oil exports<\/a> amounts to an act of war<\/a> and have called for resuming military action.<\/p>\n

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Iran is considering using dolphins armed with mines to blow open the Strait of Hormuz. REUTERS<\/p>\n

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, the Wall Street Journal reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tehran could also send submarines into the waterway, according to the WSJ, and the 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

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The Strait of Hormuz has been under a financially crippling US military blockade for weeks. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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

\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":"Fri, May 1, 2026 at 1:22 PM UTC An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows USS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[32804,34,25350,39,101,10026],"class_list":{"0":"post-93229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-persian-gulf","8":"tag-dolphins","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-military-blockade","11":"tag-persian-gulf","12":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","13":"tag-us-warships"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116500660859576314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93229","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=93229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}