{"id":95958,"date":"2026-05-03T18:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/95958\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T18:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:04:15","slug":"cargo-ship-attacked-near-strait-of-hormuz-ukmto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/95958\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargo ship attacked near Strait of Hormuz: UKMTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A cargo vessel was attacked by small boats west of Iran\u2019s coastal city of Sirik, according to the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>The agency <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukmto.org\/recent-incidents\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> the incident occurred about 11 nautical miles west of the coastal city, which overlooks the Strait of Hormuz, News.Az reports.<\/p>\n<p>All crew members were reported safe, and no environmental damage was recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not provide details about the vessel\u2019s cargo or identify those responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/ukmto-receives-report-of-incident-off-yemen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UKMTO<\/a> advised vessels in the area to proceed with caution and report any suspicious activity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/nijat-babayev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Nijat Babayev<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cargo vessel was attacked by small boats west of Iran\u2019s coastal city of Sirik, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[9851,102,34,33759,101,2483],"class_list":{"0":"post-95958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-cargo-ship","9":"tag-hormuz","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-sirik","12":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","13":"tag-ukmto"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116511969263811612","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95958","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=95958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}