{"id":514511,"date":"2026-03-02T20:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514511\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:23:10","slug":"israel-bombs-beirut-lebanon-targeting-hezbollah-trump-issues-warning-to-iranian-military-middle-east-flight-delays-continue-oil-prices-surge-after-strait-of-hormuz-threat-bahrain-iran-iraq-isr-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514511\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel bombs Beirut, Lebanon targeting Hezbollah; Trump issues warning to Iranian military; Middle East flight delays continue; oil prices surge after Strait of Hormuz threat; Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine, Qatar, Syria, UAE, Yemen travel warnings issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump said Iran ignored the United States\u2019 warnings to cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons \u2013 so the US had to strike.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed the regime\u2019s \u201crapidly\u201d growing missile program posed a \u201cvery clear, colossal threat\u201d to the Middle East and America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was our last best chance to strike, what we\u2019re doing right now, and eliminate the intolerable threats posed by this sick and sinister regime,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they are indeed sick and sinister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In justifying the attack by US and Israeli forces, he claimed the Iranian leadership \u201calready had missiles capable of hitting Europe and our bases both local and overseas, and would soon have had missiles capable of reaching our beautiful America\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, we\u2019re destroying Iran\u2019s missile capabilities, and you see that happening on an hourly basis, and their capacity to produce brand-new ones,\u201d he said. \u201cSecond, we\u2019re annihilating their navy. We\u2019ve knocked out already 10 ships. They\u2019re at the bottom of the sea. Third, we\u2019re ensuring that the world\u2019s number one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon \u2026 And finally, we\u2019re ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm, fund and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/middle-east\/trump-says-us-has-bombed-three-nuclear-sites-in-iran-in-very-successful-attack-20250622-p5m9b9.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US bombed three Iranian nuclear sites in June<\/a>, an intervention Trump called a \u201cspectacular military success\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran\u2019s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,\u201d he said then.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump gives his first in-person address on the war in Iran overnight.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/168703b9f86bbd15406d86163f781014734c7fb2.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 bnWZMz\"\/>Trump gives his first in-person address on the war in Iran overnight.AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump said Iran ignored the United States\u2019 warnings to cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons \u2013 so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-514511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}