{"id":20150,"date":"2026-04-15T02:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=20150"},"modified":"2026-04-15T02:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:57:07","slug":"u-s-warships-reportedly-intercept-two-vessels-near-irans-chabahar-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/04\/15\/u-s-warships-reportedly-intercept-two-vessels-near-irans-chabahar-port\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. warships reportedly intercept two vessels near Iran\u2019s Chabahar Port"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Western media outlets have reported that U.S. naval forces intercepted two vessels departing from Chabahar, a day after the United States began enforcing a naval blockade on Iran.<br>According to Reuters, citing an unnamed U.S. official, an American warship ordered the vessels to turn back as they attempted to leave Iranian waters via the Gulf of Oman.<br>The report said the ships were instructed via radio communication to return, effectively preventing their departure.<br>Iranian authorities have not yet commented on the claims.<br>The blockade, announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, reportedly began on April 13 and involves more than 12 U.S. warships, dozens of fighter jets, and around 10,000 military personnel.<br>However, analysts have expressed skepticism about the effectiveness of the blockade, saying it is too early to assess its impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Western media outlets have reported that U.S. naval forces intercepted two vessels departing from Chabahar, a day after the United States began enforcing a naval blockade on Iran.According to Reuters, citing an unnamed U.S. official, an American warship ordered the vessels to turn back as they attempted to leave Iranian waters via the Gulf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20152,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20150\/revisions\/20152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}