{"id":536408,"date":"2026-03-12T22:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/536408\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T22:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:06:10","slug":"iran-reveals-underground-missile-tunnels-fears-ship-attacks-could-spark-ecological-disaster-israel-raises-specter-of-major-lebanon-ground-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/536408\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran reveals underground &#8216;missile tunnels&#8217;; Fears ship attacks could spark ecological disaster; Israel raises specter of major Lebanon ground operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s former national security adviser, John Bolton, says the US president faces a big challenge in reopening the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton, who held the post in Trump&#8217;s first administration, says he has long supported the toppling of the Iranian regime, but told Today this morning he is worried about shortcomings in US strategy since the war began.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton says keeping oil supplies flowing through the Strait of Hormuz should have been a priority when Trump ordered Operation Epic Fury.<\/p>\n<p>The US military &#8220;should have been on it from the beginning,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\ufeffHaving allowed the Strait of Hormuz to close &#8230; it is now incumbent on the US and Israel to reopen it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bolton said it would probably take about two weeks for US and Western navies to clear the threat of attacks in the key waterway.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump&#8217;s former national security adviser, John Bolton, says the US president faces a big challenge in reopening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-536408","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\/536408","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=536408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}