{"id":4278,"date":"2026-11-12T15:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T10:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2026-11-12T15:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T10:03:46","slug":"two-oil-tankers-disabled-by-explosions-in-strait-of-hormuz-irgc-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4278","title":{"rendered":"Two oil tankers &#8216;disabled&#8217; by explosions in Strait of Hormuz, IRGC says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Two \u200boil supertankers were disabled by massive \u200cexplosions after they ignored warnings against using an \u201cunauthorised route\u201d in the Strait of \u200bHormuz on Wednesday night, Iran\u2019s Revolutionary \u200bGuards Navy said on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two \u2060tankers \u201cexploded after hitting naval mines\u201d, \u200bIranian state media said later, showing what \u200bit said was video footage of the incidents.<\/p>\n<p>In the earlier months of the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/iran\/\">US-Israeli war<\/a> with \u200bIran, which began in February, \u200bthe IRGC Navy had announced it had struck \u200ctankers \u2060directly.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, it has reported that vessels caught fire after hitting naval mines while using what it describes \u200bas an \u201cunauthorised \u200broute\u201d \u2060in the southern part of the strategic waterway.<\/p>\n<p>In several cases, \u200bthe United Kingdom Maritime Trade \u200bOperations \u2060agency (UKMTO) has said tankers in the strait have been struck by unknown \u2060projectiles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two \u200boil supertankers were disabled by massive \u200cexplosions after they ignored warnings against using an \u201cunauthorised route\u201d in the Strait of \u200bHormuz on Wednesday night, Iran\u2019s Revolutionary \u200bGuards Navy said on Thursday. The two \u2060tankers \u201cexploded after hitting naval mines\u201d, \u200bIranian state media said later, showing what \u200bit said was video footage of the incidents. In the earlier months of the US-Israeli war with \u200bIran, which began in February, \u200bthe IRGC Navy had announced it had struck \u200ctankers \u2060directly. More recently, it has reported that vessels caught fire after hitting&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-4278","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\/4278","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=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}