{"id":11648,"date":"2026-07-15T21:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=11648"},"modified":"2026-07-15T21:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:10:51","slug":"iran-reports-us-strike-on-hengam-island-near-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/security\/iran-reports-us-strike-on-hengam-island-near-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran reports US strike on Hengam Island near Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian media reported a US strike on Hengam Island in southern Iran on Wednesday, as military escalation between Washington and Tehran continues to rage on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mehr News Agency said US projectiles hit a site on the island, south of Qeshm Island near the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No details were given about injuries or damage from the strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tensions between the US and Iran have escalated in recent days over the Strait of Hormuz, with the two sides exchanging attacks despite a Pakistan-mediated memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the conflict and reaching a lasting peace agreement.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian media reported a US strike on Hengam Island in southern Iran on Wednesday, as military escalation between Washington and Tehran continues to rage on. Mehr News Agency said US projectiles hit a site on the island, south of Qeshm Island near the Strait of Hormuz. No details were given about injuries or damage from [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":11649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}