{"id":276,"date":"2026-05-07T21:19:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/live-blog\/live-blog-update\/us-says-it-intercepted-iranian-attacks-launched-strikes-hormuz"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:19:03","slug":"6e96e3b42e950c3bd761","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"US says it intercepted Iranian attacks, launched strikes in Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US says it intercepted Iranian attacks, launched strikes in Hormuz<\/p>\n<p>The US Central Command says American forces intercepted what it described as Iranian attacks and carried out retaliatory strikes while naval vessels moved through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Centcom said Iranian forces launched a coordinated assault using \u201cmultiple missiles, drones and small boats\u201d as US Navy destroyers USS Truxtun, USS Rafael Pe<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/live-blog\/live-blog-update\/us-says-it-intercepted-iranian-attacks-launched-strikes-hormuz\">Read original at Middle East Eye<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US says it intercepted Iranian attacks, launched strikes in Hormuz<\/p>\n<p>The US Central Command says American forces intercepted what it describ<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}