{"id":554128,"date":"2026-03-21T03:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554128\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T03:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:33:09","slug":"us-iran-war-live-updates-iran-fires-missiles-far-beyond-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554128\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran war live updates: Iran fires missiles far beyond the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our live updates of the US and Israel\u2019s war with Iran. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a day of mixed signals so far as Donald Trump said he was \u201cseriously considering\u201d either blockading or invading Iran\u2019s oil hub of Kharg Island to force Tehran into submission, despite saying moments later that the war was \u201cwrapping up\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Most of Iran\u2019s oil is shipped from the Persian Gulf island and a capture by the US would cut off Tehran from most of its lucrative oil trade. <\/p>\n<p>Taking it would be an escalation in the conflict and it wouldn\u2019t be easy, involving the US committing ground troops. It could also lead to another spike in oil prices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/content.api.news\/v3\/images\/bin\/766a0bcb2744d3fb4b824859addf0d37\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"Terrifying unseen moment from Iran bus\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Iran, meanwhile, appears to be on the offensive, saying it would target tourist sites around the world and firing two intermediate-range ballistic missiles far beyond the Middle East, at Diego Garcia, a joint US-UK military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean.<\/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 with Iran. It\u2019s been a day of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-554128","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\/554128","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=554128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}