{"id":424670,"date":"2026-05-04T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/424670\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:07:08","slug":"us-official-iran-did-not-hit-us-navy-ship-near-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/424670\/","title":{"rendered":"US official: Iran did not hit US Navy ship near Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran’s navy did not hit a United States Navy ship near the Strait of Hormuz, a US official confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

US Central Command (CENTCOM) additionally confirmed that no US ship had been hit in an afternoon post to X\/Twitter, adding that “US forces are supporting Project Freedom and enforcing the naval blockade on Iranian ports.”<\/p>\n

The denial follows a report from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps<\/a> (IRGC)-aligned Fars News Agency claiming that two missiles had hit a US naval frigate near the port of Jask at the southern entrance to the strait, forcing it to turn back.<\/p>\n

Then, CENTCOM had issued a statement on X saying that the reports were false and that “the missiles launched didn\u2019t even come close.”<\/p>\n

The incident comes after Iranian officials warned earlier on Monday<\/a> that a US proposal to escort and guide commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz would constitute a violation of the ceasefire.<\/p>\n

A statement issued Monday by the unified command of Iran’s armed forces warned the US Navy against entering the Strait of Hormuz. \u201cWe have repeatedly stated that the security of the Strait of Hormuz is under the control of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and under all circumstances, any safe passage must be coordinated with the armed forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement explicitly threatened to attack any foreign military forces, particularly US forces, that attempt to enter or approach the strait.<\/p>\n

Also on Monday, the IRGC’s Navy issued a new map of the area of the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> under its control, state media reported. It was not immediately clear if and to what extenct their claimed area of control has changed.<\/p>\n

The area starts in the west with a line between the westernmost tip of Iran’s Qeshm island to the United Arab Emirates’ Umm al Quwain emirate. In the east, the area stops at a line between Iran’s Mount Mobarak and the UAE’s Emirate of Fujairah.<\/p>\n

James Genn and Reuters contributed to this story.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran’s navy did not hit a United States Navy ship near the Strait of Hormuz, a US official…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47994,42,87,53065,43,114994,40,38,41,39,1032,127305],"class_list":["post-424670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-centcom","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-irgc","tag-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}