{"id":739366,"date":"2026-04-19T20:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/739366\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T20:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:41:16","slug":"san-diego-based-uss-spruance-blows-hole-in-iranian-ship-marines-take-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/739366\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego-based USS Spruance ‘blows hole’ in Iranian ship, Marines take control"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>The destroyer USS Spruance heads for sea from San Diego. (File photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n

President Trump announced Sunday that a San Diego-Based warship fired on an Iranian cargo vessel that refused to honor the U.S. blockade.<\/p>\n

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the USS Spruance<\/a>, a guided-missile destroyer, intercepted the Iranian-flagged container ship Touska <\/a>in the Gulf of Oman and warned it to stop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Iranian crew refused to listen, so our Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engine room,\u201d Trump wrote in the social media post. \u201cRight now, U.S. Marines have custody of the vessel.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump said in his post that the Iranian ship is under U.S. Treasury sanctions because of a history of illegal activity.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate comment from Iran. <\/p>\n

Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, and in response the U.S. is blockading ships from entering or leaving Iranian ports.<\/p>\n

The news comes after Trump\u2019s earlier announcement that U.S. negotiators would head to Pakistan on Monday for another round of talks with Iran. That had raised hopes of extending\u00a0a fragile ceasefire<\/a>\u00a0set to expire by Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The destroyer USS Spruance heads for sea from San Diego. (File photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego)…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":739367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,10757,1582,276,305084,83,3549,7264,305085,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,305086],"class_list":["post-739366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-blockade","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-guided-missile-destroyer","tag-iran","tag-san-diego","tag-sandiego","tag-touska","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-uss-spruance"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116433314702437546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}