{"id":838059,"date":"2026-09-06T04:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T04:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838059\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T04:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T04:20:09","slug":"u-s-says-it-hit-3-iranian-oil-tankers-including-one-near-kharg-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838059\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. says it hit 3 Iranian oil tankers, including one near Kharg Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"7VK75DURIBESJNJU2BCIG4R32E\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The U.S. military said Saturday it hit three Iranian oil tankers, including one near Kharg Island, the country\u2019s main oil terminal, after Iran launched missiles toward two U.S. Navy warships.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"UOLK2VB7CBAQ7KCDKKUSKCCMDE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">U.S. Central Command, which oversees operations in the region, said in a statement that the U.S. strikes disabled an oil carrier off the coast of Kharg Island and another off Jask, and it destroyed a third one in the Gulf of Oman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. military said Saturday it hit three Iranian oil tankers, including one near Kharg Island, the country\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-838059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838059","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=838059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}