{"id":76672,"date":"2026-03-12T03:15:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/mar\/11\/us-iran-strait-of-hormuz-mine-boat-attacks"},"modified":"2026-03-12T03:15:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:15:49","slug":"three-merchant-ships-struck-as-tensions-rise-in-hormuz-strait-amid-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76672","title":{"rendered":"Three merchant ships struck as tensions rise in Hormuz strait amid Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crew of Thai-registered bulk carrier forced to flee fire, as US says it has destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/11\/iran-war-live-updates-trump-oil-hormuz-protestors-us-israel-beirut-middle-east-latest-news\">Middle East crisis live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Three merchant ships have been struck in and around the strait of Hormuz, including a Thai registered bulk carrier that caught fire after leaving a port in the UAE, forcing crew members to evacuate for their safety.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayuree Naree was struck on Wednesday by \u201ctwo projectiles of unknown origin\u201d, its owners said, as it sailed about 11 nautical miles north of Oman, marking the end of a four-day lull of attacks in the strategic waterway.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/mar\/11\/us-iran-strait-of-hormuz-mine-boat-attacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crew of Thai-registered bulk carrier forced to flee fire, as US says it has destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying vesselsMiddle East crisis live \u2013 latest updatesThree merchant ships have been struck in and around the strait of Hormuz, including a Thai regis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,666,448,212,449,3511,93,554,47,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-commodities","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-oil","category-strait-of-hormuz","category-thailand","category-trump-administration","category-us-news","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76673,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76672\/revisions\/76673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}