{"id":194169,"date":"2026-07-17T08:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=194169"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:56:19","slug":"west-asia-war-live-iran-guards-say-attack-on-u-s-base-in-qatar-meant-to-punish-aggressor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=194169","title":{"rendered":"West Asia war LIVE: Iran Guards say attack on U.S. base in Qatar meant to &#8216;punish aggressor&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/> Strait of Hormuz transits drop as U.S. and Iran escalate attacks across Gulf<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">Just three commodity vessels crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday (July 16, 2026), the fewest daily transits since May, shipping data showed, with most ships halting or making U-turns after recent \u200cIranian attacks on vessels and the resumption of a U.S. blockade on Iran-related shipping.<\/p>\n<p>The re-escalation in fighting between the \u2060U.S. and Iran has once again largely stopped traffic through Hormuz, the world\u2019s most important shipping route for oil and gas, driving up global energy prices.<\/p>\n<p>Miraan, \u200ca sanctioned product tanker carrying fuel oil, and Norita, a small vessel carrying liquefied petroleum gas, exited the strait \u200con Thursday (July 16, 2026) via the Iranian route but stopped at \u200cthe Gulf \u2060of Oman, where the U.S. blockade is, Kpler \u2060data showed as of 05:13 GMT on Friday (July 17, 2026).<\/p>\n<p>Arolia, a bunkering tanker laden with Iraqi fuel oil that is used to refuel vessels at sea, made a U-turn to head back into the \u200cGulf hours after it exited earlier on Friday (July 17, 2026), LSEG data showed.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8211; Reuters<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/west-asia-war-us-iran-conflict-washington-strikes-tehran-donald-trump-strait-of-hormuz-live-updates-july-17-2026\/article71232634.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strait of Hormuz transits drop as U.S. and Iran escalate attacks across Gulf Just three commodity vessels crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday (July 16, 2026), the fewest daily transits since May, shipping data showed, with most ships halting or making U-turns after recent \u200cIranian attacks on vessels and the resumption of a U.S&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AFP_C2CW2CQ.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":193749,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=193749","url_meta":{"origin":194169,"position":0},"title":"US-Iran LIVE Updates: US launches new wave of strikes as explosions hit Bandar Abbas, Chabahar, Ahvaz","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"July 15, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"US launches new round of strikes against Iran as escalation threatens shipping. 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