{"id":129846,"date":"2026-09-05T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marinresists.com\/?p=129846"},"modified":"2026-09-06T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T23:40:23","slug":"u-s-strikes-3-iranian-oil-tankers-vows-to-destroy-entire-fleet-if-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marinresists.com\/?p=129846","title":{"rendered":"U.S. strikes 3 Iranian oil tankers, vows to \u2018destroy\u2019 entire fleet \u2018if necessary\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. military said Saturday that it struck three Iranian oil tankers in retaliation for strikes on two Navy warships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/petehegseth\/status\/2096258363856134442?s=46&amp;t=WQsDYy0pGgaELUk2cT8RgQ\">said<\/a> on social media following the strikes, \u201cIt\u2019s simple: if Iran shoots at U.S. ships, we will destroy (and sink) their oil tankers. All they have to do is stop shooting at <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USNavy\">@USNavy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The military said in a statement earlier that the strikes were aimed at Iran\u2019s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLet the message to the IRGC be clear: If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost \u2014taking out three of yours,\u201d Admiral Brad Cooper, who leads U.S. Central Command,\u00a0said in a statement posted by CENTCOM on X. \u201cWe will not hesitate to defend American forces, and if necessary, destroy Iran\u2019s limited and exposed oil fleet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement said U.S. forces \u201cpermanently disabled\u201d two Iranian crude oil carriers and \u201ccompletely destroyed\u201d another in the Gulf of Oman. These tankers were \u201cpart of a multibillion-dollar shadow network\u201d funding Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CENTCOM\/status\/2096231596449767452\">CENTCOM<\/a> said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CENTCOM said that before it struck the carrier in the Gulf of Oman, U.S. forces first directed the crew to \u201cabandon ship,\u201d indicating the Trump administration intended to avoid further escalation even as it described the latest strikes as retaliatory in nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center said it received a report of several merchant vessels involved in military action in both the Gulf of Oman and the Northern Arabian Gulf, but was unable to determine whether there were any casualties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest strikes are part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/iran-war-wedding-strike-civilian-deaths-pete-hegseth\">new wave of fighting<\/a> that began a week ago after a period of relative peace.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the three oil tankers was struck off the coast of Kharg Island. Trump has toyed with the idea of taking control of the strategic oil hub and seizing other oil infrastructure points in Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No U.S. personnel were injured in Saturday\u2019s strikes, according to CENTCOM.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump, who jointly launched the war against Iran with Israel on Feb. 28, downplayed the war on Friday, calling it \u201csmall potatoes\u201d and saying, \u201cIt\u2019s not a big thing.\u201d Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t call it a war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Julia Jester contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/iran-war-kharg-strikes-trump\">U.S. strikes 3 Iranian oil tankers, vows to \u2018destroy\u2019 entire fleet \u2018if necessary\u2019<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\">MS NOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military said Saturday that it struck three Iranian oil tankers in retaliation for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":129800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ms-now","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>U.S. strikes 3 Iranian oil tankers, vows to \u2018destroy\u2019 entire fleet \u2018if necessary\u2019 - Marin &amp; 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