{"id":205973,"date":"2026-04-22T13:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205973\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:04:16","slug":"strait-of-hormuz-ships-targeted-with-three-vessels-hit-by-gunfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205973\/","title":{"rendered":"Strait of Hormuz ships targeted with three vessels hit by gunfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three container ships were hit by Iranian gunfire in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, hours after President Trump announced he was indefinitely extending a cease-fire with the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian state TV also reported that two of the vessels had been seized by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), while semiofficial news agencies reported the third vessel was \u201cstranded\u201d on the Iranian coast.<\/p>\n<p>The captured ships were identified as the Panama-flagged MSC Francesca and the Epaminodes. The third vessel was identified as the Euphoria.<\/p>\n<p>US forces patrol the Arabian Sea on April 20, 2026. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Tankers and bulk carriers anchored in the Strait of Hormuz on April 18, 2026. AP<\/p>\n<p>A vessel tracker showing ships navigating near the Strait of Hormuz on April 16, 2026. MarineTraffic<\/p>\n<p>Confirmation from non-Iranian sources that the ships had been seized was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>US forces patrol the Arabian Sea on April 20, 2026. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The IRGC said in a statement the ships \u201callegedly operated without authorization, repeatedly violated regulations, manipulated navigational aid systems and sought to covertly exit the Strait of Hormuz, endangering maritime security.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three container ships were hit by Iranian gunfire in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, hours after President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14670,72882,9,11,10,21760,62206,62208,1069,21181,1076],"class_list":["post-205973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-iran","tag-iran-deal","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-oil","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-trump","tag-war","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}