{"id":24734,"date":"2026-05-26T00:47:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/us-forces-conduct-strikes-in-iran-centcom-says\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T00:47:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:47:54","slug":"us-forces-conduct-strikes-in-iran-centcom-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/us-forces-conduct-strikes-in-iran-centcom-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US forces conduct strikes in Iran, Centcom says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/AP26077766430104-e1779752814136.jpg?w=900\" \/><br \/>U.S. Central Command (Centcom) on Monday said U.S. forces fired &#8220;defensive strikes&#8221; in southern Iran amid discussions to bring the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Tehran to an end. These strikes were intended &#8220;to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces,&#8221; specifically boats attempting to lay mines and missile launch sites, Navy Captain Tim Hawkins,&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5894404-us-strikes-iran-centcom\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Central Command (Centcom) on Monday said U.S. forces fired &#8220;defensive strikes&#8221; in southern Iran amid discussions to bring the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Tehran to an end. These strikes were intended &#8220;to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces,&#8221; specifically boats attempting to lay mines and missile launch sites, Navy Captain Tim Hawkins,&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}