{"id":14620,"date":"2026-04-20T10:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/us-captures-iranian-cargo-ship-that-tried-to-evade-hormuz-blockade-as-new-round-of-talks-is-prepared-mercopress\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:54:06","slug":"us-captures-iranian-cargo-ship-that-tried-to-evade-hormuz-blockade-as-new-round-of-talks-is-prepared-mercopress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/us-captures-iranian-cargo-ship-that-tried-to-evade-hormuz-blockade-as-new-round-of-talks-is-prepared-mercopress\/","title":{"rendered":"US captures Iranian cargo ship that tried to evade Hormuz blockade as new round of talks is prepared \u2014 MercoPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/109855\/100x80\/69e57efde474e-992-558-.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"title\">US captures Iranian cargo ship that tried to evade Hormuz blockade as new round of talks is prepared<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content-data\">\n            <span>Monday, <a title=\"Browse all articles for April 2026\" href=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/2026\/04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April<\/a> <a title=\"Browse all articles for April 20th 2026\" href=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/2026\/04\/20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20th<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/2026\" title=\"Browse all articles for 2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026<\/a>  &#8211; 04:13 UTC<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<figure class=\"\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/109855\/0x0\/69e57efde474e-992-558-.jpg\" class=\"gallery\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n                    <\/figure>\n<p>The US Navy fired on and boarded an Iranian-flagged cargo ship on Sunday in the Gulf of Oman, in the first naval seizure since Washington imposed a blockade on Iranian ports a week ago. Iran vowed retaliation, calling the operation an \u0093act of piracy,\u0094 casting&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/2026\/04\/20\/us-captures-iranian-cargo-ship-that-tried-to-evade-hormuz-blockade-as-new-round-of-talks-is-prepared?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_content=main&#038;utm_campaign=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US captures Iranian cargo ship that tried to evade Hormuz blockade as new round of talks is prepared Monday, April 20th 2026&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3513,3461],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amerique-du-sud","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}