{"id":12165,"date":"2023-11-10T15:16:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12165"},"modified":"2023-11-10T15:16:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T15:16:03","slug":"the-us-carrier-groups-posted-near-israel-could-be-under-threat-from-hezbollahs-new-anti-ship-missiles-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12165","title":{"rendered":"The US carrier groups posted near Israel could be under threat from Hezbollah&#8217;s new anti-ship missiles: report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah has obtained Russian anti-ship missiles capable of targeting US carrier groups posted near Israel,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/hezbollahs-anti-ship-missiles-bolster-its-threat-us-navy-2023-11-08\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters reported.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a speech last week Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah issued a veiled threat to the US, saying that the militant group had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-warships-sailing-toward-israel-dangerous-waters-2023-10?IR=T&amp;r=US&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoo.com\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weapons capable of striking US warships<\/a>&nbsp;in the region to deter attacks on Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reuters, citing unnamed sources, said that Nasrallah was talking about Russian Yakhont missiles which Hezbollah obtained while fighting alongside Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s forces in the Syrian civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The missiles have a range of around 186 miles, and can be launched from ground, sea or air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking about the possibility that Hezbollah had acquired the weapons, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Reuters: &#8220;This is news without any confirmation at all. We do not know if it is true or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A US official told the outlet: &#8220;We&#8217;re obviously paying a lot of attention to that&#8230; and we&#8217;re taking what capabilities they have seriously.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us-carrier-groups-posted-near-144048895.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us-carrier-groups-posted-near-144048895.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah has obtained Russian anti-ship missiles capable of targeting US carrier groups posted near Israel, Reuters reported.<br \/>\nIn a speech last week Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah issued a veiled threat to the US, saying that the militant group had weapons capable of striking US warships in the region to deter attacks on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters, citing unnamed sources, said that Nasrallah was talking about Russian Yakhont missiles which Hezbollah obtained while fighting alongside Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s forces in the Syrian civil war.<\/p>\n<p>The missiles have a range of around 186 miles, and can be launched from ground, sea or air.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the possibility that Hezbollah had acquired the weapons, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Reuters: &#8220;This is news without any confirmation at all. We do not know if it is true or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A US official told the outlet: &#8220;We&#8217;re obviously paying a lot of attention to that&#8230; and we&#8217;re taking what capabilities they have seriously.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us-carrier-groups-posted-near-144048895.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1673,1301,1965,194,259,338,1056,389,315,419,108,115,619,1055],"class_list":["post-12165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-aircraft-carrier","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-israel","tag-military","tag-missiles","tag-navy","tag-palestine","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists","tag-united-states","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12166,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12165\/revisions\/12166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}