{"id":17007,"date":"2023-12-24T06:21:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T06:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=17007"},"modified":"2023-12-24T06:26:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T06:26:05","slug":"iranian-drone-struck-chemical-tanker-near-india-says-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2023\/12\/iranian-drone-struck-chemical-tanker-near-india-says-pentagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian drone struck chemical tanker near India, says Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; A drone launched from Iran has struck a chemical tanker in the Indian Ocean early on Saturday, the U.S. Department of Defense said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">&#8220;The motor vessel CHEM PLUTO, a Liberia-flagged, Japanese-owned, and Netherlands-operated chemical tanker was struck at approximately 10 a.m. local time (6 a.m. GMT) today in the Indian Ocean, 200 nautical miles from the coast of India, by a one-way attack drone fired from Iran,&#8221; a Pentagon spokesperson told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The incident highlights escalating regional tensions and new risk to shipping lanes after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">The Iranian government, as well as its allied militant forces in Yemen, have publicly criticized the Israeli government&#8217;s military operation in Gaza. Thousands of Palestinian citizens have been killed in the ongoing conflict, according to aid monitors.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">The Pentagon statement said this was the \u201cseventh Iranian attack on commercial shipping since 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were no casualties as a result of the attack and a brief fire on board the tanker was extinguished. The incident took place only 200 nautical miles from the coast of India.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-6\">A spokesperson for the Iranian delegation at the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; A drone launched from Iran has struck a chemical tanker in the Indian Ocean early on Saturday, the U.S. Department of Defense said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":17010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,194,982,233,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-world","category-international","category-iran","category-politics_","category-headline"],"views":53,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17009,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17007\/revisions\/17009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}