{"id":618028,"date":"2026-06-03T01:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618028\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T01:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:15:11","slug":"us-says-it-fired-missile-at-iran-bound-oil-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618028\/","title":{"rendered":"US says it fired missile at Iran-bound oil tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Centcom said the strike on Qeshm Island had targeted an Iranian military ground control station, and that the US military also shot down three attack drones that had been launched by Iran toward &#8220;civilian mariners that were rightfully transiting regional waters&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The IRGC said &#8220;disrupting the security of the Strait of Hormuz will carry a heavy price for the aggressive US military&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iran has repeatedly attacked targets in Bahrain and Kuwait, where US military bases are located.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, Centcom said it has struck and disabled an unladen oil tanker that was sailing towards Iran, as part of Washington&#8217;s naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A US aircraft fired a Hellfire missile into the engine room of the Botswana-flagged M\/T vessel, after its crew &#8220;ignored repeated warnings&#8221;, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Centcom also released a footage purportedly showing the moment the tanker was hit on Tuesday. Iran has not publicly commented on the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US military began enforcing its blockade of all vessels entering and exiting Iranian ports on 13 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Centcom said the strike on Qeshm Island had targeted an Iranian military ground control station, and that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-618028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}