{"id":47709,"date":"2024-02-13T15:44:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T05:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=47709"},"modified":"2024-02-13T15:44:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T05:44:33","slug":"huthis-strike-cargo-ship-headed-to-iran-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=47709","title":{"rendered":"Huthis strike cargo ship headed to Iran: US military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The US military said Monday that Iran-backed Huthi rebels had launched missiles at a cargo vessel off Yemen&#8217;s south coast, with the ship reporting only minor damage and continuing to its intended port &#8212; in Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On Feb. 12 from 3:30 to 3:45 a.m. (Sanaa time), Iranian-backed Huthi militants fired two missiles from Huthi-controlled areas of Yemen toward the Bab al-Mandeb,&#8221; the US Central Command said on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>A security firm, Ambrey, said the ship was a Marshall Islands-flagged, Greece-owned bulk carrier and that it &#8220;was targeted by missiles in two separate incidents&#8221; within 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>It &#8220;was reportedly hit and sustained physical damage on the starboard side,&#8221; Ambrey said, adding that a private armed security team was on board.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The group owner of the bulker was also listed on the US stock market index NASDAQ, which was identified as the likely reason for the attack,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>CENTCOM said the ship, the MV Star Iris, was &#8220;transiting the Red Sea carrying corn from Brazil&#8221; and reported &#8220;being seaworthy with minor damage and no injuries to the crew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The MV Star Iris&#8217;s destination is Bandar Imam Khomeini, in Iran, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The Huthis, part of the anti-Western, anti-Israel &#8220;axis of resistance&#8221; of Iran-backed groups, have been targeting Red Sea shipping vessels since November, triggering US and British reprisal attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military said Monday that Iran-backed Huthi rebels had launched missiles at a cargo vessel off Yemen&#8217;s south coast, with the ship reporting only minor damage and continuing to its intended port &#8212; in Iran. &#8220;On Feb. 12 from 3:30 to 3:45 a.m. (Sanaa time), Iranian-backed Huthi militants fired two missiles from Huthi-controlled areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-47709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-huthis-strike-cargo-ship-headed-to-iran-us-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}