{"id":1943,"date":"2026-09-30T20:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2026-09-30T20:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:03:46","slug":"three-ships-struck-by-unknown-projectiles-in-strait-of-hormuz-ukmto-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1943","title":{"rendered":"Three ships struck by unknown projectiles in Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Three vessels were struck by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre (UKMTO).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A crude oil tanker and two other vessels had each \u201cbeen struck by an unknown projectile\u201d, the UKMTO said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The agency had earlier described one of the vessels as an LNG tanker, before later describing it as a tanker.<\/p>\n<p>The Strait of Hormuz is currently at the centre of the Middle East war between Iran and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Around a fifth of the world\u2019s oil and liquefied natural gas passed through the strategic shipping lane before the war.<\/p>\n<p>Since the conflict broke out, Tehran has been blocking the passage of commercial ships and firing on vessels of unauthorised crossings.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has responded with a counterblockade of Iranian ports in an effort to prevent Tehran from exporting its oil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three vessels were struck by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre (UKMTO). A crude oil tanker and two other vessels had each \u201cbeen struck by an unknown projectile\u201d, the UKMTO said on Wednesday. The agency had earlier described one of the vessels as an LNG tanker, before later describing it as a tanker. The Strait of Hormuz is currently at the centre of the Middle East war between Iran and the United States. Around a fifth of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}