{"id":139865,"date":"2026-05-05T04:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/us-strikes-iranian-fast-boats-as-iran-attacks-uae-oil-facility\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T04:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:03:28","slug":"us-strikes-iranian-fast-boats-as-iran-attacks-uae-oil-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/us-strikes-iranian-fast-boats-as-iran-attacks-uae-oil-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"US strikes Iranian fast boats as Iran attacks UAE oil facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON DC, May 5 \u2013 President Donald Trump says the US has struck seven Iranian \u201cfast boats\u201d in the Strait of Hormuz, as Washington seeks to guide stranded ships out of the Gulf through the largely closed waterway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UAE and South Korea both reported strikes on ships in the vital channel on Monday. The UAE also said a fire broke out at the oil port of Fujairah after an Iranian attack.<\/p>\n<p>Shipping company Maersk told the BBC that one of its US-flagged vessels had successfully exited the strait with US military protection \u2013 under what Trump has called \u201cProject Freedom\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that events in the strait \u201cmake clear that there\u2019s no military solution to a political crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cProject Freedom is Project Deadlock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maersk said the transit of one of its commercial vessels was \u201ccompleted without incident, and all crew members are safe and unharmed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Strait of Hormuz has remained largely blocked since the US and Israel launched air strikes on Iran in February. Tehran responded by blocking the crucial waterway through which 20% of the world\u2019s oil and liquefied natural gas usually passes.<\/p>\n<p>In early April, the US and Iran announced a ceasefire under which Iran ended its drone and missile strikes on Gulf countries including the UAE, but few vessels have been able to transit the strait since then. The US also imposed its own blockade on Iranian ports.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said: \u201cWe\u2019ve shot down seven small boats or, as they like to call them, \u2018fast\u2019 boats. It\u2019s all they have left.\u201d The US military said it had used helicopters to attack the boats.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian state media later disputed Trump\u2019s announcement that the US had struck the speed boats. Citing a military source, the Tasnim news agency reported that two small cargo vessels had been hit instead, killing five civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The US earlier said navy destroyers and US-flagged merchant ships sailed through the strait on Monday. Iran called the claims \u201centirely false\u201d, with its military saying it fired warning shots at a US warship. The US military denied this.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON DC, May 5 \u2013 President Donald Trump says the US has struck seven Iranian \u201cfast boats\u201d in the Strait of Hormuz, as Washington seeks to guide stranded ships out of the Gulf through the largely closed waterway. The UAE and South Korea both reported strikes on ships in the vital channel on Monday. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}