{"id":99629,"date":"2026-05-05T23:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/99629\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T23:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:28:19","slug":"us-destroyers-come-under-fire-in-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/99629\/","title":{"rendered":"US Destroyers Come Under Fire in Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS says USS Truxtun and USS Mason came under Iranian fire in the Strait of Hormuz while escorted by Apache helicopters and aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News reported that the US\u00a0destroyers USS Truxtun and USS Mason came under Iranian fire while passing through the Strait of\u00a0Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Citing US\u00a0Defense Department officials, the outlet said the warships have already entered the Persian Gulf. During the transit, they were subjected to\u00a0heavy fire, but neither destroyer was hit. The vessels were escorted by\u00a0Apache attack helicopters and other aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News noted that the passage took place after US\u00a0President Donald Trump said the Navy was ready to\u00a0help commercial ships move through the Strait of\u00a0Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, US\u00a0Central Command said the destroyers had crossed the strait under the \u00abProject Freedom\u00bb initiative. The military also reported that two US-flagged commercial vessels had successfully completed the route. According to\u00a0media reports, the Pentagon contacted dozens of\u00a0shipping companies to\u00a0encourage vessel traffic through the strait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS says USS Truxtun and USS Mason came under Iranian fire in the Strait of Hormuz while escorted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[34845,3715,34844,39,33820,101,34842,34574,34843],"class_list":{"0":"post-99629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-persian-gulf","8":"tag-apache-helicopters","9":"tag-cbs-news","10":"tag-iran-fire","11":"tag-persian-gulf","12":"tag-project-freedom","13":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","14":"tag-us-destroyers","15":"tag-uss-mason","16":"tag-uss-truxtun"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116524568119240489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99629","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=99629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}