{"id":516343,"date":"2026-03-03T16:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516343\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:45:10","slug":"donald-trump-warns-of-us-strikes-israel-bombs-lebanon-targets-hezbollah-strait-of-hormuz-closure-puts-pressure-on-petrol-gas-prices-australias-al-minhad-air-base-in-dubai-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516343\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump warns of US strikes; Israel bombs Lebanon, targets Hezbollah; Strait of Hormuz closure puts pressure on petrol, gas prices; Australia\u2019s Al Minhad air base in Dubai hit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, has told BBC News that US troops could be used to secure nuclear sites in Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could certainly imagine, at an appropriate time, putting American forces on the ground to secure the nuclear sites at Natanz and Isfahan and Fordow and perhaps a few others, to prevent the materials there from falling into the wrong hands,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that would be a prudent use of American boots on the ground.\u201c<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump has not ruled out sending ground forces into Iran.<\/a><\/p>\n

Bolton said he found it \u201chard to imagine there is anything worse than the present government\u201d in Iran, noting the tens of thousands of people killed for protesting against the regime. He said that while doing what they could to facilitate changeover \u201cto a more appropriate kind of government would be in America\u2019s interest as well\u201d, it was not the US\u2019 responsibility to bring about regime change.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think American citizens need to be tethered goats to a regime run by a bunch of autocratic, theological extremists seeking to possess nuclear weapons,\u201d the former US national security advisor said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we are entitled to protect our people, and that of our allies who want to be protected, by eliminating the threat before it becomes real.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AnAn Iranian flag is planted in the rubble of a police station in Tehran.Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, has told BBC News that US troops could be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-516343","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\/516343","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=516343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}