{"id":8544,"date":"2019-08-26T14:04:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=8544"},"modified":"2019-08-26T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T09:04:13","slug":"iran-sends-warship-to-gulf-of-aden-amid-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/8544","title":{"rendered":"Iran sends warship to Gulf of Aden amid tension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has dispatched a destroyer and a helicopter-carrying support ship to the Gulf of Aden &#8220;to provide security for Islamic Republic vessels in international waters\u201d, according to the Iranian army chief.<\/p>\n<p>Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said the &#8220;Sahand&#8221; destroyer, which was inducted into the navy last year, has been sent on its first overseas mission to the Gulf of Aden.<\/p>\n<p>He said the military vessel will safeguard Iranian shipping ships in the Sea of Oman and the Gulf of Aden.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes amid tension between Iran and the U.S. after two oil tankers were attacked at the Strait of Hormuz in June.<\/p>\n<p>Washington held Tehran responsible for the attacks, an accusation denied by Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has dispatched a destroyer and a helicopter-carrying support ship to the Gulf of Aden &#8220;to provide security for Islamic Republic vessels in international waters\u201d, according to the Iranian army chief. Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said the &#8220;Sahand&#8221; destroyer, which was inducted into the navy last year, has been sent on its first overseas mission to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8546,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544\/revisions\/8546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}