{"id":2000,"date":"2026-04-22T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:52:00","slug":"ynap-denies-seizure-of-the-ship-epaminondas-by-the-revolutionary-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2000","title":{"rendered":"YNAP: denies seizure of the ship &#8220;Epaminondas&#8221; by the Revolutionary Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an update from the Ministry of Shipping, the Greek-owned Greek-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.gr\/ploio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vessel <b>&#8220;Epaminondas&#8221;<\/b>has not been <a href=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.gr\/katalipsi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seized by the Revolutionary Guards<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that earlier<b>, Iranian media<\/b>s reported that the Revolutionary Guards were behind the attacks on three ships in Straits of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Fars news agency, which is affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, one of the ships hit was the <strong>&#8220;Euphoria&#8221;<\/strong>flagged in Panama and owned by a United Arab Emirates-based company, which reportedly ran aground off the Iranian coast after the attack.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Iranian media reported that two other ships, the <strong>&#8220;MSC Francesca&#8221;<\/strong>flagged in Panama and the Greek-owned <strong>&#8220;Epaminondas&#8221;,<\/strong> were seized and taken to Iran, citing a statement by the Revolutionary Guards navy, which a shipping ministry denied.<\/p>\n<p>According to security firm Diaplous, the master of the &#8220;Epaminondas&#8221; (IMO 9153862), Liberian-flagged and managed by Maersk, said a Revolutionary Guards boat approached the ship without prior radio communication and then <strong>opened fire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/strong>The ship, which is owned by the Greek-owned <strong>Technomar<\/strong> company owned by <strong>Giorgos Yiuroukos<\/strong>, has 21 crew members and is made up of Ukrainians and Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p>According to the same report, the attack caused minor damage to the ship&#8217;s bridge despite initial reports of more serious damage, and according to the same report, all crew members are safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an update from the Ministry of Shipping, the Greek-owned ship &#8220;Epaminondas&#8221; has not been seized by the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}