{"id":566502,"date":"2026-03-26T22:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566502\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T22:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:38:09","slug":"trump-reveals-boats-of-oil-present-from-iran-iranian-naval-commander-alireza-tangsiri-killed-in-airstrike-israel-claims-australia-fuel-shortages-worsen-as-anthony-albanese-to-conv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566502\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump reveals boats of oil \u2018present\u2019 from Iran; Iranian naval commander Alireza Tangsiri killed in airstrike, Israel claims; Australia fuel shortages worsen as Anthony Albanese to convene national cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imminent talks between the US and Iran are likely to fail, says US President Donald Trump\u2019s former security adviser, John Bolton, who also believes the Strait of Hormuz may be closed for another week or two.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if there is a meeting, I don\u2019t see the two sides getting closer together. So I think the burden is rapidly coming back on Trump\u2019s shoulders,\u201d Bolton said on Sunrise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis threat \u2013 which he has extended once \u2013 to bomb energy infrastructure in Iran comes back alive again Saturday night Washington time. We\u2019ll have to see what he does. Does he give them another extension, or does he start carrying through on the threat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former US national security adviser John Bolton.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a802993ea622ca785f726ae3c0ea01ddef3d72d8.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Former US national security adviser John Bolton.AP<\/p>\n<p>Iranian leaders may have changed, but their ideology remains the same, he said, and doubted Trump\u2019s assertions that Iran is ready to make a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton, once Trump\u2019s adviser and now an ardent critic, said the president had to clear the Strait of Hormuz to claim victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hear from our military\u2019s perspective, they think they\u2019re making good progress doing what they need to do to be able to make it safe to go through the Gulf and transit the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d he said, adding that he didn\u2019t expect tankers to start crossing the waterway for another week or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imminent talks between the US and Iran are likely to fail, says US President Donald Trump\u2019s former security&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-566502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566502","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=566502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}