{"id":22455,"date":"2026-06-27T19:19:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/strait-of-hormuz-tanker-damaged-in-projectile-strike-as-us-iran-tensions-escalate\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T19:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:19:27","slug":"strait-of-hormuz-tanker-damaged-in-projectile-strike-as-us-iran-tensions-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/strait-of-hormuz-tanker-damaged-in-projectile-strike-as-us-iran-tensions-escalate\/","title":{"rendered":"Strait of Hormuz tanker damaged in projectile strike as US-Iran tensions escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>DUBAI, June 27 &mdash; An oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz was struck and damaged by an &ldquo;unidentified projectile&rdquo;, British maritime security agency UKMTO said today, following the first exchange of fire between the US and Iran since their deal to end the Middle East war.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The vessel sustained damage to their bridge; all crew are reported safe,&rdquo; UKMTO said, while another British marine security firm, Vanguard Tech, said the vessel was the Panama-flagged tanker KIKU.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&rsquo;s Revolutionary Guards, the ideological arm of the military, announced today that they had attacked American positions in the Gulf after US strikes on Iran. &mdash; AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Strait of Hormuz tanker damaged in projectile strike as US-Iran tensions escalate<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, June 27 &mdash; An oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz was struck and damaged by an &ldquo;unidentified projectile&rdquo;, British maritime security agency UKMTO said today, following the first exchange of fire between the US and Iran since their deal to end the Middle East war. &ldquo;The vessel sustained damage to their bridge; all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/strait-of-hormuz-tanker-damaged-in-projectile-strike-as-us-iran-tensions-escalate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Strait of Hormuz tanker damaged in projectile strike as US-Iran tensions escalate&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}