{"id":270429,"date":"2026-04-16T07:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/270429\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:38:12","slug":"san-diego-destroyer-uss-spruance-forces-iranian-ship-to-respect-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/270429\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego destroyer USS Spruance forces Iranian ship to respect blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Spruance-Tomahawk.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Spruance-Tomahawk.jpg\" alt=\"USS Spruance launches Tomahawk\" class=\"wp-image-371611\"  \/><\/a>The USS Spruance launches a Tomahawk land attack missile toward Iran in February. (File image from Navy video)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centcom.mil\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Central Command<\/a> reported Wednesday that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfpac.navy.mil\/ddg111\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USS Spruance<\/a> successfully forced an Iranian-flagged cargo ship to honor the U.S. blockade and turn back.<\/p>\n<p>The San Diego-based guided-missile destroyer is part of the Navy fleet in the Gulf of Oman enforcing the three-day-old blockade of ships attempting to enter or leave Iranian ports.<\/p>\n<p>Centcom said that on Tuesday the Spruance \u201csuccessfully redirected the vessel, which is heading back to Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Spruance intervened after the ship was tracked leaving the port Bandar Abbas, exiting the Strait of Hormuz, and sailing along the Iranian coastline<\/p>\n<p>Centcom said 10 vessels have been turned around so far, and none have broken through.<\/p>\n<p>Navy personnel have been <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/military\/2026\/04\/15\/navy-guided-missile-destroyers-threaten-board-iran-bound-ships\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"378059\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hailing suspect ships<\/a> via radio and threatening them with boarding or use of force.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. blockade is intended to degrade Iran\u2019s oil-based economy and force the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The USS Spruance launches a Tomahawk land attack missile toward Iran in February. (File image from Navy video)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[115868,117544,19378,5923,74,76,75,95950],"class_list":["post-270429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-blockade","tag-central-command","tag-iran","tag-navy","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-uss-spruance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}