{"id":679866,"date":"2026-07-08T06:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679866\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T06:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:21:15","slug":"us-strikes-iranian-targets-in-response-to-attacks-on-oil-tankers-in-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679866\/","title":{"rendered":"US strikes Iranian targets in response to attacks on oil tankers in Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions ramp up in Middle East as Trump meets allies at Nato summitpublished at 06:42 BST<\/p>\n<p>06:42 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2d63518e-61c6-45cd-b91d-d250cf9cdde9.jpg.webp\"  width=\"4640\" height=\"2611\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, EPA\/ShutterstockImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump arrived in Ankara on Tuesday for the Nato summit<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US and Iran have traded strikes overnight after tensions escalated in the Strait of Hormuz, as Donald Trump is in Turkey for the Nato summit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US Central Command (Centcom) said on Tuesday it had hit over 80 targets, including more than 60 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) small boats in the strait.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The IRGC said it had responded with retaliatory attacks on US military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait in the early hours of Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Centcom says the US strikes are in response to Iran \u201ctargeting and attacking commercial shipping\u201d in the strait, after several reports of tankers being targeted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iran, on the other hand, has accused the US of breaching a memorandum of understanding signed between the countries last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It comes as the US president will meet with allies at Nato\u2019s Ankara summit &#8211; we\u2019ll bring you up to speed with the situation in the Middle East  and keep across what is happening in Turkey. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tensions ramp up in Middle East as Trump meets allies at Nato summitpublished at 06:42 BST 06:42 BST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-679866","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\/679866","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=679866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}