{"id":522262,"date":"2026-03-06T10:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522262\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:07:12","slug":"etihad-resumes-flights-to-australia-uk-police-arrest-four-men-on-suspicion-of-iranian-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522262\/","title":{"rendered":"Etihad resumes flights to Australia; UK police arrest four men on suspicion of Iranian spying"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran fired a barrage of missiles and drones targeting countries across the Persian Gulf in the last twelve hours, in a war that\u2019s entered a seventh day with no end in sight.<\/p>\n

In the latest development, there are reports that residents in Dubai, the UAE\u2019s largest city, are being sent alerts on their mobile phones warning of a potential missile threat.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain were among those that came under renewed attack from the Islamic Republic, while Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran and Beirut.<\/p>\n

The US-Israeli war on Iran has now left at least 1,332 people dead in Iran so far, and dozens of others have been killed elsewhere in the region in retaliatory strikes.<\/p>\n

\"FootageFootage appears to show drone strikes impacting a hotel in Manama, Bahrain.Twitter \/ X<\/p>\n

Six US troops have been killed, all in the first two days of fighting.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump said the US continues to \u201ctotally demolish\u201d Iranian forces, telling NBC he wanted to \u201cclean out\u201d Iran\u2019s leadership structure and he had names in mind to take over.<\/p>\n

Iran has \u201cno air force, they have no air defence,\u201d Trump said. \u201cTheir navy is gone \u2014 24 ships in three days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fears of a protracted war around the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of world\u2019s oil supplies transit, are roiling markets. Crude is headed for its biggest weekly surge since 2022.<\/p>\n

Emerging markets, in particular, are seeing a sell-off of their assets. Turkey has spent $12 billion, equal to roughly 15 per cent of its foreign-currency reserves, to keep the lira stable this week.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran fired a barrage of missiles and drones targeting countries across the Persian Gulf in the last twelve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-522262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522262","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=522262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}