{"id":548419,"date":"2026-03-18T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548419\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:27:09","slug":"us-iran-war-live-updates-irans-intelligence-minister-killed-in-airstrike-as-israel-warns-of-surprises-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548419\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran War live updates: Iran\u2019s intelligence minister killed in airstrike as Israel warns of \u2018surprises\u2019 today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our live updates of the US and Israel\u2019s war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has taken out Iran\u2019s intelligence minister and warned \u201csignificant surpises\u201d are on the way in the war today. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Donald Trump has gone on a furious diatribe against NATO nations as well as other allies including Australia after most baulked at the prospect of going all in on a US plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. <\/p>\n<p>Allies, hit by tariffs and threats from the White House, have smarted at not being consulted about Mr Trump\u2019s actions in Iran but now being asked to send support. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe no longer \u2018need,\u2019 or desire, the NATO Countries\u2019 assistance \u2014 WE NEVER DID! Likewise, Japan, Australia, or South Korea,\u201d the US president said on social media. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/content.api.news\/v3\/images\/bin\/9761605f4f2163f9ee8d00ea34bf6242\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"Iran says possible US boots on the ground would be \u2018reckless\u2019\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In further comments from the White House, he added that nations had been \u201cfoolish\u201d to question his request. <\/p>\n<p>But a former Nato representative hit back, saying the president had \u201ccompletely misuderstood\u201d the point of the alliance. <\/p>\n<p>Read on for more updates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to our live updates of the US and Israel\u2019s war in Iran. Israel has taken out Iran\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-548419","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\/548419","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=548419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}