{"id":1129,"date":"2026-09-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/iranian-irgc-claims-ballistic-missile-strikes-on-us-warships\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T00:00:00","slug":"iranian-irgc-claims-ballistic-missile-strikes-on-us-warships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/iranian-irgc-claims-ballistic-missile-strikes-on-us-warships\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian IRGC Claims Ballistic Missile Strikes on US Warships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Saturday that it launched several ballistic missiles at a US aircraft carrier and a US Navy destroyer. The group accused the American vessels of harassing Iranian ships and enforcing a naval blockade against Iranian ports.<\/p>\n<p>The claim emerges amid intensifying hostilities in the Strait of Hormuz, following the US military&#8217;s assertion that it destroyed three Iranian crude oil tankers. Washington stated these strikes were in retaliation for earlier attacks on US warships in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The escalating exchanges have heightened fears of a broader conflict in the strategically vital waterway, where both sides continue to trade accusations and military actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s IRGC claims it fired ballistic missiles at a US aircraft carrier and destroyer, escalating tensions in the Strait of Hormuz after US strikes on Iranian tankers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[288,2334,15,33,703,26,10],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-conflict","tag-gulf","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-us","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}