{"id":5142,"date":"2026-07-12T07:14:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T07:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/12\/us-launches-airstrikes-on-iran-in-retaliation-for-strait-of-hormuz-container-ship-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T07:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T07:14:29","slug":"us-launches-airstrikes-on-iran-in-retaliation-for-strait-of-hormuz-container-ship-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/12\/us-launches-airstrikes-on-iran-in-retaliation-for-strait-of-hormuz-container-ship-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"US Launches Airstrikes on Iran in Retaliation for Strait of Hormuz Container Ship Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has launched a third round of airstrikes against Iran in response to an IRGC attack on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz. The attack significantly damaged the vessel and left a civilian crew member missing. Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guard has since declared the strait closed to all traffic, escalating regional tensions.<\/p>\n<figure>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108333212-17836696471783669644-47071245703-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1783669646&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y\" alt=\"Strait of Hormuz\"><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/07\/12\/us-launches-airstrikes-against-iran-after-tehran-attacks-container-ship-in-hormuz-pentagon-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has launched a third round of airstrikes against Iran in response to an IRGC attack on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz. The attack significantly damaged the vessel and left a civilian crew member missing. Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guard has since declared the strait closed to all traffic, escalating regional tensions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108333212-17836696471783669644-47071245703-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1783669646&w=750&h=422&vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-global-affairs","category-global-security","rifnote_country-cyprus","rifnote_country-france","rifnote_country-iran","rifnote_country-oman","rifnote_country-united-kingdom","rifnote_country-usa","rifnote_executive-abbas-araghchi","rifnote_executive-chris-wright","rifnote_executive-david-goldwyn","rifnote_executive-donald-trump","rifnote_executive-sayyid-badr-bin-hamad-al-busaidi"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108333212-17836696471783669644-47071245703-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1783669646&w=750&h=422&vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}