{"id":21897,"date":"2026-05-06T19:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/21897\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:41:15","slug":"could-iran-use-kamikaze-dolphins-against-the-us-in-the-strait-of-hormuz-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/21897\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Iran use \u2018kamikaze dolphins\u2019 against the US in the Strait of Hormuz? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Could Iran use \u2018kamikaze dolphins\u2019 against the US in the Strait of Hormuz? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R-IfHsKxD4g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nCould Iran use \u2018kamikaze dolphins\u2019 against the US in the Strait of Hormuz? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs US-Iran tensions escalate around the Strait of Hormuz, a journalist at a\u00a0Pentagon briefing asked an out-of-the ordinary question: whether Tehran could deploy \u201ckamikaze dolphins\u201d against US warships. Whilst Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth denied that Iran had these in their possession, he wouldn&#8217;t confirm or deny whether the US does. The idea isn\u2019t as far-fetched as it seems, as multiple countries have a history of using marine mammals for military uses.\u00a0Vedika Bahl explains in Truth or Fake.<br \/>\n#straitofhormuz #dolphins #iranwar<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Could Iran use \u2018kamikaze dolphins\u2019 against the US in the Strait of Hormuz? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English As&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,2763,2352,24956,5074,19632,1076,17232,14,13631,22,23,20,21,38,26,24957,24958,24959,46,24960,24961,4177,24962,520,526,24963,27,43,12436,44,955],"class_list":{"0":"post-21897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france24","8":"tag-fake-news","9":"tag-animals","10":"tag-blockade","11":"tag-bottlenose-dolphins","12":"tag-crimea","13":"tag-dan-caine","14":"tag-defence","15":"tag-dolphins","16":"tag-donald-trump","17":"tag-explainer","18":"tag-france-24","19":"tag-france-24-english","20":"tag-france24","21":"tag-france24-english","22":"tag-iran","23":"tag-iran-war","24":"tag-kamikaze-dolphins","25":"tag-marine-mammals","26":"tag-maritime-surveillance","27":"tag-military","28":"tag-mine-detection","29":"tag-naval-marine-mammal","30":"tag-navy","31":"tag-north-korean-navy","32":"tag-pentagon","33":"tag-pete-hegseth","34":"tag-russian-navy","35":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","36":"tag-us-military","37":"tag-us-navy","38":"tag-usa","39":"tag-whales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}