{"id":524758,"date":"2026-03-07T13:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/524758\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:51:10","slug":"trump-demands-irans-unconditional-surrender-israeli-strikes-hit-beirut-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/524758\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump demands Iran\u2019s \u2018unconditional surrender\u2019; Israeli strikes hit Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier tonight, Iran\u2019s President Masoud Pezeshkian gave a televised speech to his country, saying Iran\u2019s temporary leadership council had approved suspending attacks on nearby countries.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have all reported drone and missile attacks over the past week.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/615e2f679227dd09afad5c684322c275098ba6fc.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 bnWZMz\"\/>Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian. AP<\/p>\n<p>He said Iran would still retaliate if an attack on Iran came from any of those nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI personally apologise to neighbouring countries that were affected by Iran\u2019s actions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few days, Gulf states have voiced outrage that their civilian infrastructure &#8211; hotels, ports and oil facilities &#8211; were struck despite their having had no part in the U.S.-Israeli attacks.<\/p>\n<p>While Gulf states host U.S. military bases, they had told Washington they would not allow these to be used for any attacks on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s apparent strategy of maximum chaos has driven up the costs of the conflict by raising energy prices, hurting global business and logistics links and shaking trust in the stability of a critical region for the world\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>It is too soon to say whether Pezeshkian\u2019s comments mean Iran has decided to curtail that strategy in deference to future ties with Gulf neighbours, or if they should be read as a warning that Tehran remains ready to strike across the region.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Putin meeting with the late Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in 2017.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6eb07303ee462cdf45fd09d4293de5f5f9d102dc.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 bnWZMz\"\/>Putin meeting with the late Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in 2017.AP<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to Pezeshkian over the numerous civilian casualties resulting from \u201cthe armed Israeli-American aggression against Iran\u201d and called for an immediate halt to hostilities, the Kremlin said.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is expected to back Iran\u2019s \u201clegitimate rights against aggression\u201d by using its international capabilities, Pezeshkian told Putin over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier tonight, Iran\u2019s President Masoud Pezeshkian gave a televised speech to his country, saying Iran\u2019s temporary leadership council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-524758","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\/524758","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=524758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}