{"id":430110,"date":"2026-05-04T23:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/us-says-it-eliminated-six-iranian-small-boats\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T23:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:40:17","slug":"us-says-it-eliminated-six-iranian-small-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/us-says-it-eliminated-six-iranian-small-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"US says it &#8216;eliminated&#8217; six Iranian small boats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Ok, so now we know why Iran fired missiles and drones.<\/p>\n<p>A US Admiral via CENTCOM reports that the US destroyed six Iranian small boats that were approaching commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. <\/p>\n<p>There is also a headline saying citing a senior Iranian military official saying Iran has no plan to target the UAE. Of course, they did attack the UAE so that&#8217;s a strange one.<\/p>\n<p>More from the admiral:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Iran has targeted civilian and US military ships with cruise missiles<\/li>\n<li>US military blockade of Iran is exceeding expectations<\/li>\n<li>Ships in Gulf waters belong to 87 countries, and we urge ships to cross the strait through the safe passage<\/li>\n<li>Iran has attempted but failed to interfere by firing at commercial shipping<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is a video circulating of a commercial ship on fire.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear what else is going on but Trump isn&#8217;t writing on Truth Social at the moment. It&#8217;s getting tougher to see an off-ramp here as they now seem to be openly fighting over who controls Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so now we know why Iran fired missiles and drones. A US Admiral via CENTCOM reports that the US destroyed six Iranian small boats that were approaching commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. There is also a headline saying citing a senior Iranian military official saying Iran has no plan to target the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}