{"id":21665,"date":"2026-04-21T16:21:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-forces-board-sanctioned-vessel-without-incident-pentagon-says\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:21:44","slug":"us-forces-board-sanctioned-vessel-without-incident-pentagon-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-forces-board-sanctioned-vessel-without-incident-pentagon-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US forces board sanctioned vessel without incident, Pentagon says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. forces boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean overnight without incident, the Pentagon announced Tuesday morning.&nbsp; The Pentagon said U.S. personnel performed a &ldquo;right-of-visit, maritime&rdquo; interdiction and boarded the &ldquo;stateless sanctioned&rdquo; M\/T Tifani in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (Indopacom) area of responsibility.&nbsp;&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5840985-us-forces-board-sanctioned-oil-tanker\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. forces boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean overnight without incident, the Pentagon announced Tuesday morning.&nbsp; The Pentagon said U.S. personnel performed a &ldquo;right-of-visit, maritime&rdquo; interdiction and boarded the &ldquo;stateless sanctioned&rdquo; M\/T Tifani in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (Indopacom) area of responsibility.&nbsp;&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}