{"id":59541,"date":"2015-04-28T12:01:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59541"},"modified":"2015-04-28T12:01:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:01:12","slug":"iran-seizes-commercial-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59541","title":{"rendered":"Iran seizes commercial ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/04\/28\/politics\/iran-seizes-commercial-ship-u-s-official-says-no-americans-on-board\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, Iran&#8217;s naval forces have fired upon and seized the M\/V Maersk Tigris, a Marshall Islands flagged vessel while it was transiting the Straits of Hormuz. Apparently Iran charges that the ship violated it&#8217;s territorial waters;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The master was contacted and directed to proceed further into Iranian territorial waters. He declined and one of the IRGCN craft fired shots across the bridge of the Maersk Tigris,&#8221; said Warren. &#8220;The master complied with the Iranian demand and proceeded into Iranian waters IVO Larak Island.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the shots were fired, the Tigris issued a distress call which was picked up by U.S. forces in the area and the USS Farragut was ordered to head towards the incident. The closest U.S. warship was 60 miles from the incident.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report also states that the Republican Guards troops boarded the ship.<\/p>\n<p>CNN says that there are no Americans aboard the ship, but that US aircraft are monitoring the activities.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=59542\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59542\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Maersk-Tigris-300x127.jpg\" alt=\"Maersk Tigris\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Maersk-Tigris-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Maersk-Tigris-500x211.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Maersk-Tigris.jpg 911w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN, Iran&#8217;s naval forces have fired upon and seized the M\/V Maersk Tigris, a &hellip; <a title=\"Iran seizes commercial ship\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59541\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran seizes commercial ship<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}