{"id":314485,"date":"2026-09-06T11:29:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=314485"},"modified":"2026-09-06T11:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:45:06","slug":"u-s-iran-war-escalates-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/u-s-iran-war-escalates-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-Iran war escalates again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The US and Iran have again launched retaliatory strikes against the ships. This is the latest phase of the attack since the fighting began a week ago. The situation was generally calm for about a month. <\/p>\n<p>The US Central Command shared a recent video on X, writing, &#8220;The purity and professionalism of the US military led to the sinking of M\u00f7T coal in the Gulf of Oman today. It has sunk in the sea. \u2019<\/p>\n<p>The US military said it had &#8220;completely destroyed&#8221; two Iranian-linked oil tankers near the island of Kharg and a third in the Gulf of Oman. <\/p>\n<p>Iranian state media confirmed the attacks, saying it targeted three U.S.-linked vessels in retaliation. It also attacked three oil tankers crossing the Strait of Hormuz &#8220;without permission.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The attacks came a day after President Donald Trump described the current conflict as a &#8220;small thing&#8221;. Little progress has been made toward ending the six-month-long war. He did not comment on Saturday&#8217;s attack. <\/p>\n<p>News of Iran&#8217;s latest retaliation came hours after US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted a comment on social media. &#8220;It&#8217;s simple: If Iran shoots at American ships, we will destroy and sink their oil tankers,&#8221; Hegseth wrote. \u2019<\/p>\n<p>According to the US Central Command (CENTCOM), Iran had targeted two US warships before the US attack. The US then attacked three oil tankers belonging to Iran. <\/p>\n<p>CENTCOM said, &#8220;We have successfully repelled a number of attacks by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) earlier in the day.&#8221; These strikes were aimed at U.S. aircraft carriers and guided-missile destroyers. <\/p>\n<p>CENTCOM claimed that no U.S. troops were harmed. \u2014 Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The US and Iran have again launched retaliatory strikes against the ships. This is the latest phase of the attack since the fighting began a week ago. The situation was generally calm for about a month. The US Central Command shared a recent video on X, writing, &#8220;The purity and professionalism of the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":314483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45044,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314486,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314485\/revisions\/314486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/314483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}