{"id":5331,"date":"2019-05-14T15:52:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T13:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2019-05-14T16:04:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:04:59","slug":"us-blames-iran-for-damage-to-tankers-in-gulf-of-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=5331","title":{"rendered":"US &#8218;blames Iran&#8216; for damage to tankers in Gulf of Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-48264499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">US investigators believe Iran or groups it supports used explosives to damage four ships off the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday, media reports say.<\/p>\n<p>Military experts were reportedly sent to investigate the incident and found a large hole in each of the tankers.<\/p>\n<p>No evidence has emerged to show that Iran was involved. The affected countries are yet to assign blame.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The team of US military investigators discovered large holes in all four of the affected ships and believe they were caused by explosive charges, the Associated Press reports, quoting an unnamed official. They did not explain how the damage was linked to Iran.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/iran-news-sabotage-tankers-fujairah-us-donald-trump-warns-iran-live-updates-2019-05-14\/\">CBS carried a similar report<\/a>\u00a0quoting unnamed US officials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: US investigators believe Iran or groups it supports used explosives to damage four ships off the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday, media reports say. Military experts were reportedly sent to investigate the incident and found a large hole &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=5331\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}