{"id":529761,"date":"2026-03-09T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/529761\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:05:08","slug":"australia-providing-military-aid-to-uae-five-iranian-soccer-team-players-granted-asylum-oil-prices-jumps-iran-names-new-supreme-leader-and-digs-in-diesel-shipments-on-schedule-says-energy-ministe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/529761\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia providing military aid to UAE; Five Iranian soccer team players granted asylum; Oil prices jumps; Iran names new supreme leader and digs in; Diesel shipments on schedule, says Energy Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump is giving a typically upbeat assessment of US military operations against Iran.<\/p>\n

He says the US military has struck more than 5000 targets since the war began in Iran.<\/p>\n

Trump said “some of them very major targets,” but commanders are leaving “some of the most important targets for later in case we need to do it.”\ufeff<\/p>\n

“If we hit them, it’s going to take many years for them to be rebuilt, having to do with electricity production and many other things,” Trump said.<\/p>\n

He also says Iran was going to “take over the Middle East” and attack Israel\ufeff before the US launched strikes late last month.<\/p>\n

“We’re achieving major strides toward completing our military objective, and some people could say they’re pretty well complete,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We’ve wiped every single force in Iran out very completely.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump is giving a typically upbeat assessment of US military operations against Iran. He says the US military…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-529761","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\/529761","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=529761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}