{"id":75448,"date":"2026-06-27T17:55:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/us-says-it-struck-targets-in-iran-over-continued-aggression-against-shipping\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T17:55:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:55:36","slug":"us-says-it-struck-targets-in-iran-over-continued-aggression-against-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/us-says-it-struck-targets-in-iran-over-continued-aggression-against-shipping\/","title":{"rendered":"US says it struck targets in Iran over \u2018continued aggression\u2019 against shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strikes come after retaliatory attacks on Friday following a drone strike on cargo ship in strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n<p>The US has struck multiple targets in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\">Iran<\/a> after strikes on Friday that were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jun\/26\/us-says-it-struck-iran-targets-after-attack-on-cargo-ship-on-the-strait-of-hormuz\">in response<\/a> to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/26\/trump-iran-drone-strike-strait-hormuz\">drone strike<\/a> on a cargo ship a day earlier in the strait of Hormuz, US Central Command (Centcom) has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Centcom said its strikes on Saturday were in \u201cdirect response to continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping\u201d. The US strikes targeted \u201cIranian military surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and minelayer capabilities\u201d, Centcom said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/27\/us-iran-strikes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strikes come after retaliatory attacks on Friday following a drone strike on cargo ship in strait of Hormuz The US has struck multiple targets in Iran after strikes on Friday that were in response to a drone strike on a cargo ship a day earlier in the strait of Hormuz, US Central Command (Centcom) has &#8230; <a title=\"US says it struck targets in Iran over \u2018continued aggression\u2019 against shipping\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/us-says-it-struck-targets-in-iran-over-continued-aggression-against-shipping\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US says it struck targets in Iran over \u2018continued aggression\u2019 against shipping\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}