{"id":547713,"date":"2026-03-18T05:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547713\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T05:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:21:15","slug":"ari-larijani-gholam-reza-soleimani-killed-trump-signals-conflict-exit-criticises-nato-israel-continue-hezbollah-strikes-in-lebanon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547713\/","title":{"rendered":"Ari Larijani, Gholam Reza Soleimani killed; Trump signals conflict exit, criticises NATO; Israel continue Hezbollah strikes in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fifth of the world\u2019s oil supplies travels through the strait.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Treasurer Jim Chalmers.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/d2233abe0640b0a4e41f7ec53ee61f9188cb19d5.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Treasurer Jim Chalmers.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>Treasurer Jim Chalmers deflected Trump\u2019s criticism, saying the government had not considered sending any vessels to protect oil tankers in the strait.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not something that we\u2019ve been considering, in terms of sending battleships to the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d Chalmers told Sky News earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>Ministers previously said Australia had not received a formal request from the US to provide a warship.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Opposition industry minster Andrew Hastie, regarded as a pro-US national security hawk, accused Donald Trump of petulance.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0ca50b321263a4dc719305e9252f0ab3289ec3b0.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Opposition industry minster Andrew Hastie, regarded as a pro-US national security hawk, accused Donald Trump of petulance.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>Opposition frontbencher Andrew Hastie took aim at Trump\u2019s post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a petulant post from a president under immense pressure &#8230; relationships that are longstanding, you show respect and I don\u2019t think it was a respectful post at all,\u201d he told ABC radio on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a proud history and I just don\u2019t think that\u2019s how you treat allies. It\u2019s a reflection on his character more than us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg, AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fifth of the world\u2019s oil supplies travels through the strait. Treasurer Jim Chalmers.Alex Ellinghausen Treasurer Jim Chalmers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-547713","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\/547713","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=547713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}