{"id":110919,"date":"2021-04-07T14:38:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T14:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=184490"},"modified":"2021-04-07T14:38:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T14:38:30","slug":"israel-attacks-iranian-command-ship-in-red-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/07\/israel-attacks-iranian-command-ship-in-red-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Attacks Iranian Command Ship In Red Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Iranian command ship stationed in the Red Sea was damaged in an Israeli mine attack on Tuesday, a US official has told the New York Times (NYT).<\/p>\n<p>The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: \"The Israelis had notified the United States that its forces had struck the vessel at about 7.30am local time.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The official said the ship was damaged below the water line and that Israel had called the attack a retaliation for earlier Iranian strikes on Israeli vessels.<\/p>\n<p>Iran's foreign ministry said on Wednesday that the\u00a0vessel, the Saviz, had been targeted in the Red Sea, a day after media reports that the ship had been attacked with limpet mines.<\/p>\n<p>\"The explosion occurred on Tuesday morning near the Djibouti coast and caused minor damage with no casualties,\" said foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh.<\/p>\n<p>\"The vessel was a civilian ship station<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/israel-attacks-iranian-command-ship-in-red-sea\/\">Israel Attacks Iranian Command Ship In Red Sea<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/israel-attacks-iranian-command-ship-in-red-sea\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iranian command ship stationed in the Red Sea was damaged in an Israeli mine attack on Tuesday, a US official has told the New York Times (NYT).<br \/>\nThe official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: &#8220;The Israelis had notified the United States th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5722,25,82,15712,5724],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110920,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110919\/revisions\/110920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}