{"id":601157,"date":"2026-04-23T07:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/601157\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:33:11","slug":"breaking-irgc-video-captures-dramatic-ship-seizure-in-strait-of-hormuz-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/601157\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: IRGC video captures dramatic ship seizure in Strait of Hormuz &#8211; VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has released footage showing its forces seizing a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"239\" data-end=\"409\">The video reportedly depicts Iranian forces boarding a container ship during the operation, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"239\" data-end=\"409\">The vessel was one of two ships captured by <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> on Wednesday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u203c\ufe0fFootage shows IRGC special forces boarding the Liberia-flagged container ship MSC Epaminondas, which was attempting to break through the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/69WVeVMQQB\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/69WVeVMQQB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 News.Az (@news_az) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/news_az\/status\/2047195439674626184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has released footage showing its forces seizing a commercial vessel in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,801,226770,3,210369,452,453,261502],"class_list":["post-601157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-irgc","tag-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-vessel-capture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}