{"id":97122,"date":"2026-05-04T12:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97122\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:53:13","slug":"us-navy-destroyers-operating-in-persian-gulf-after-transiting-strait-of-hormuz-centcom-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97122\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy Destroyers Operating in Persian Gulf After Transiting Strait of Hormuz, CENTCOM Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/break.webp\" alt=\"Photo: Bloomingbit\" width=\"646\" role=\"presentation\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Photo: Bloomingbit<\/p>\n<p>US Navy destroyers have transited the Strait of Hormuz and are now operating in the Persian Gulf, underscoring an expansion of military activity as maritime tensions persist in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>US Central Command said on May 4 that guided-missile destroyers passed through the strait in support of &#8220;Project Freedom&#8221; and are currently conducting operations in the Persian Gulf, according to a post by Walter Bloomberg on X.<\/p>\n<p>The mission is intended to support vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Markets are watching how expanded US naval activity could affect tensions in the Middle East and the stability of oil supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Bloomingbit US Navy destroyers have transited the Strait of Hormuz and are now operating in the Persian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[3982,16196,16204,16194,16195,16201,16200,16198,16197,16199,9693,16202,39,16203],"class_list":{"0":"post-97122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-persian-gulf","8":"tag-bitcoin","9":"tag-bitcoincommunity","10":"tag-blockchain","11":"tag-bloomingbit","12":"tag-coincommunity","13":"tag-coininfo","14":"tag-coininvest","15":"tag-coinnews","16":"tag-coinreview","17":"tag-coinstats","18":"tag-cryptocurrency","19":"tag-ethereum","20":"tag-persian-gulf","21":"tag-solana"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116516408932360155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97122","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=97122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}