{"id":659042,"date":"2026-03-06T11:47:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659042"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:17:04","slug":"us-oil-tanker-currently-on-fire-iran-says-it-hit-american-ship-in-gulf-with-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-oil-tanker-currently-on-fire-iran-says-it-hit-american-ship-in-gulf-with-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018US oil tanker currently on fire\u2019: Iran says it hit American ship in Gulf with missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has reportedly struck an oil tanker in the Gulf, which belonged to the United States, Euro News reported. The strike was conducted through a missile which was fired on Thursday, 5 March, in the latest Iranian attack on the region\u2019s energy infrastructure. There was no immediate confirmation of the incident or of a similar attack that Iran claimed earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement that the ship was hit by a missile \u201cin the north of the Persian Gulf\u201d and \u201cis currently on fire\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has reportedly struck an oil tanker in the Gulf, which belonged to the United States, Euro News reported. The strike was conducted through a missile which was fired on Thursday, 5 March, in the latest Iranian attack on the region\u2019s energy infrastructure. There was no immediate confirmation of the incident or of a similar attack that Iran claimed earlier this week. Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement that the ship was hit by a missile \u201cin the north of the Persian Gulf\u201d and \u201cis currently on fire\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}