{"id":61123,"date":"2026-03-14T22:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=61123"},"modified":"2026-03-14T22:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:37:03","slug":"irans-ultimate-weapon-to-choke-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/irans-ultimate-weapon-to-choke-the-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s ultimate weapon to choke the Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61125\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Iran-Hormuz-Control.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Iran-Hormuz-Control.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Iran-Hormuz-Control-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Middle East Monitoring Desk Islamabad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The IRGC Navy has a card it hasn&#8217;t played yet: swarms of Ashura-class fast attack boats armed with heat-seeking Qadr missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Why it is so lethal:<\/p>\n<p>Range: 25 km \u2014 far enough to hit a tanker from Iranian waters.<\/p>\n<p>Speed: 90 km\/h \u2014 pop out, fire, disappear in under 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Guidance: Thermal homing, immune to US electronic warfare.<\/p>\n<p>Cost: Cheap to build, big stockpiles. If 20 boats swarm from different directions, the math gets ugly fast.<\/p>\n<p>They can also carry anti-drone and anti-helicopter missiles, which pose a threat that the US Navy has no answer for.<\/p>\n<p>These boats have not yet been used in combat. So far, Iran has relied on drones and cruise missiles. However, the knife is already on the table.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"tDiTcCcCai\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/real-reason-pentagon-is-losing-sleep-iranian-top-drones\/\">Real Reason Pentagon Is Losing Sleep: Iranian Top Drones<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Real Reason Pentagon Is Losing Sleep: Iranian Top Drones&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/real-reason-pentagon-is-losing-sleep-iranian-top-drones\/embed\/#?secret=DCyTPwPXtf#?secret=tDiTcCcCai\" data-secret=\"tDiTcCcCai\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East Monitoring Desk Islamabad The IRGC Navy has a card it hasn&#8217;t played yet: swarms of Ashura-class fast attack boats armed with heat-seeking Qadr missiles. Why it is so lethal: Range: 25 km \u2014 far enough to hit a tanker from Iranian waters. Speed: 90 km\/h \u2014 pop out, fire, disappear in under 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[706,8171,197,8172,7882,2308],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61131,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61123\/revisions\/61131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}