{"id":628687,"date":"2026-05-07T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/628687\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:36:08","slug":"iranian-vessels-reportedly-break-through-blockade-and-enter-persian-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/628687\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian vessels reportedly break through blockade and enter Persian Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Two Iranian vessels have reportedly entered the Persian Gulf after breaking through what Iranian media describe as an attempted maritime blockade by the United States. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/farsnews.ir\/Economy\/1778132866654356460\/%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%87-%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D8%AF%D9%88-%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%AC%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%AF-%D8%B4%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%AA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fars News Agency<\/a> said, citing vessel tracking data, that two Iranian ships succeeded in reaching the Gulf despite what it characterised as efforts to restrict maritime movement, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the vessels include a large liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanker and an oil tanker.<\/p>\n<p>It added that the United States is seeking to use a so-called maritime blockade of Iran as leverage in relation to the Strait of Hormuz, a strategically important waterway.<\/p>\n<p>The report also noted that Iran has previously used empty oil tankers as floating storage for crude oil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Iranian vessels have reportedly entered the Persian Gulf after breaking through what Iranian media describe as an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[254481,4,450,451,801,3,228047,66067,210369,452,453,24,271927,1139],"class_list":["post-628687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-blockade","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-news","tag-oil-tankers","tag-persian-gulf","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-usa","tag-vessels","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628687","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=628687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}