{"id":4362,"date":"2026-11-13T17:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T12:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4362"},"modified":"2026-11-13T17:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T12:03:46","slug":"iran-says-tanker-carrying-lng-hit-mine-suffered-explosion-in-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4362","title":{"rendered":"Iran says tanker carrying LNG hit mine, suffered explosion in Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards navy said a tanker carrying \u200bliquefied natural gas struck a naval \u200cmine and suffered an explosion in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday while using what they \u200bdescribed was an \u201cunauthorised and dangerous route\u201d, \u200bstate media reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No details on the tanker \u2060were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian media <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/two-oil-tankers-disabled-by-explosions-strait-hormuz-irgc-says-2026-11-12\/\">reported <\/a>on Thursday that \u200bfour oil tankers were hit by explosions \u200bin the waterway vital for global shipping, adding that the vessels had ignored warnings and entered what \u200bit considers restricted areas of the strategic \u200bwaterway.<\/p>\n<p>Tankers are <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/tankers-continue-burn-middle-east-despite-hopes-de-escalation-2026-11-10\/\">still facing attacks<\/a> across the strait, despite a \u200crebound \u2060in traffic and expectations of a de-escalation in the US-Israeli war on Iran, which have been reflected in falling oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>At \u200bleast 10 \u200bships were \u2060hit in the first 10 days of November, after 37 \u200battacks in October, which was the \u200bhighest \u2060monthly tally since the conflict began in late February, according to data from the Washington \u2060Institute \u200bfor Near East Policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards navy said a tanker carrying \u200bliquefied natural gas struck a naval \u200cmine and suffered an explosion in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday while using what they \u200bdescribed was an \u201cunauthorised and dangerous route\u201d, \u200bstate media reported. No details on the tanker \u2060were immediately available. Iranian media reported on Thursday that \u200bfour oil tankers were hit by explosions \u200bin the waterway vital for global shipping, adding that the vessels had ignored warnings and entered what \u200bit considers restricted areas of the strategic \u200bwaterway. Tankers are still facing&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-4362","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\/4362","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=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}