{"id":629536,"date":"2026-09-28T00:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/629536\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T00:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:06:13","slug":"irgc-spox-says-iran-captured-american-submarine-in-hormuz-hunting-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/629536\/","title":{"rendered":"IRGC spox. says Iran captured American submarine in Hormuz &#8216;hunting ground&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Iran claims to have captured an American autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday evening, Spokesperson for the IRGC, Brigadier General Hossein Mohebbi said in a statement on X\/Twitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;The Strait of Hormuz is not only open, but a hunting ground for the IRGC Navy targeting American submarines,&#8221; Mohebbi explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He added that this was the IRGC&#8217;s &#8220;second catch&#8221;, claiming that the captured US submarine is &#8220;the Mk 18 Mod 2 Kingfish; an advanced, autonomous AUV equipped with sonar and precise navigation, worth several million dollars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not just a hunt; it&#8217;s an intelligence windfall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran claims to have captured an American autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,149244,87,53065,43,114994,8404,40,38,41,39,160359,1032,76279,2586],"class_list":["post-629536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-irgc","tag-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-submarine","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uavs","tag-united-states","tag-us-iran","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629536","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=629536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}