{"id":2035,"date":"2026-04-22T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:49:00","slug":"george-gerapetritis-for-attacking-a-greek-owned-ship-damaged-not-seized-by-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2035","title":{"rendered":"George Gerapetritis for attacking a Greek-owned ship: Damaged, not seized by Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"175\" data-end=\"293\">Extensive <b>damage <\/b> was sustained by the <b>German-owned ship &#8220;EPAMINONDAS&#8221;<\/b> after the <b>attack<\/b> off the <b>Oman<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"295\" data-end=\"612\">In a statement to CNN, <b>Foreign Minister<\/b> <strong data-start=\"376\" data-end=\"417\">Giorgos Gerapetritis<\/strong> confirmed the incident, stressing: &#8220;<b>I can confirm that there was an attack on the Greek cargo ship, but I cannot confirm that it has been seized by the Iranians<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"614\" data-end=\"716\">As he explained, <b>the ship has suffered significant damage, but &#8220;it has not been seized&#8221;<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"718\" data-end=\"968\">Earlier, the <b>Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy<\/b> clarified that the Liberian-flagged <b>EPAMINONDAS<\/b> <b>has not been detained<\/b>, contradicting statements to that effect by <b>Revolutionary Guards<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"970\" data-end=\"1136\">According to the same reports, both the &#8220;<b>EPAMINONDAS<\/b>&#8221; and the also Greek-owned &#8220;<b>Euphoria<\/b>&#8221; <b>received fire while crossing the Sea Strait of Hormuz<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1138\" data-end=\"1323\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Representative sources point out that <b>the ship is not detained<\/b>, with the Greek side attributing Tehran&#8217;s claims to the contrary to inaccurate information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek-owned ship &#8220;EPAMINONDAS&#8221; suffered extensive damage after the attack off Oman.<br \/>\nIn a statement to CNN, Foreign Minister &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2035","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\/2035","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=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}