{"id":3630,"date":"2026-11-01T16:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:03:47","slug":"qatari-lng-tanker-attacked-in-gulf-waters-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3630","title":{"rendered":"Qatari LNG tanker attacked in Gulf waters: State media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A Qatari liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker was attacked with \u201cunidentified objects\u201d while sailing through Gulf waters, Qatar\u2019s state news agency reported on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on Friday evening and involved Al Mayeda, a vessel owned by the Qatar Gas Transport Company, the Qatar News Agency (QNA) said.<\/p>\n<p>No crew members were injured in the attack, and there was no environmental impact, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The Qatari company said the vessel remained in a safe condition and was operational following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel attack comes amid escalating tensions in the Gulf, with Iran targeting marine vehicles in the Strait of Hormuz and the wider Gulf in an effort to assert control over maritime traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran has maintained that ships must seek its permission to pass through the strategic waterway. Qatar, which has been mediating in the conflict, has intensified diplomatic efforts in recent days to revive negotiations between the United States and Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Qatari liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker was attacked with \u201cunidentified objects\u201d while sailing through Gulf waters, Qatar\u2019s state news agency reported on Sunday. The incident occurred on Friday evening and involved Al Mayeda, a vessel owned by the Qatar Gas Transport Company, the Qatar News Agency (QNA) said. No crew members were injured in the attack, and there was no environmental impact, according to the report. The Qatari company said the vessel remained in a safe condition and was operational following the incident. The vessel attack comes amid escalating&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-3630","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\/3630","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=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}