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US Navy attacked and [seized](/news/2026/4/20/us-captures-iranian-ship-touska-amid-mediation-efforts-all-we-know) an Iranian-flagged cargo ship on Sunday that it said had tried to evade its blockade. The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman declared that these actions
ships,” the force said, a day after [US strikes on two Iranian tankers](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/iran-accuses-us-of-violating-ceasefire-by-targeting-civilian-areas-and-ships-on-strait-of-hormuz) in the Gulf of Oman. Donald Trump had said on Friday that he was expecting Iran’s answer
Iranian-flagged cargo ship named TOUSKA” tried to get past the US naval blockade, “and it did not go well for them”. Trump said that a US navy guided missile destroyer had warned the Touska
Iranian-flagged ships leaving the vicinity of Iran's Chahbahar port - which is east of the Strait of Hormuz on Iran's southern coast - after the start of the blockade. The cargo ship Ashkan3
navy would “set those ships ablaze”.  As the war has dragged on and negotiations have failed to achieve a settlement, Iran has at times
Iranian-flagged tanker and said it would “respond soon”. Then, Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported that Iranian forces had sent drones in the direction of US military ships. Ebrahim Azizi, the head
Iranian-flagged vessel it was in violation of the US blockade.” “After Touska’s crew failed to comply with repeated warnings over a six-hour period, Spruance directed the vessel to evacuate its engine room
Iranian-flagged cargo ship named TOUSKA, nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier, tried to get past our Naval Blockade, and it did not go well for them," Trump
Iranian-flagged container ship Touska close to the Strait of Hormuz in the northern Arabian Sea, and, a day later, detained another oil tanker sanctioned for transporting Iranian crude oil as it sailed