{"id":342520,"date":"2026-03-12T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/342520\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:24:08","slug":"irans-new-supreme-leader-vows-to-keep-blocking-strait-of-hormuz-in-first-statement-released-by-regime-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/342520\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s new supreme leader vows to keep blocking Strait of Hormuz in first statement released by regime – follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man describes ‘panic’ after Israeli strike on Beirut beachpublished at 12:42 GMT<\/p>\n

12:42 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Alice Cuddy
Reporting from Beirut<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been speaking to people at the scene of the overnight strike
\nby the beachfront here in the Lebanese capital Beirut.<\/p>\n

Mohamad Ali says he fled from his home in Beirut\u2019s southern
\nsuburbs when the war began and headed further north into the capital, looking
\nfor safety.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were sleeping here peacefully and didn\u2019t feel anything until
\nsomething exploded and we woke up in a panic,\u201d he says. \u201cThey said one strike
\nhad happened so we went back to sleep, thinking the targeting was over, but
\nthen the second strike happened – people started saying that civilians were
\nbeing targeted and everyone started running,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

Mohamad says he grabbed two of his children and rushed them away
\nfrom the area.<\/p>\n

He says schools that have been transformed into displacement
\ncentres in the city are already full, leaving few options for people who have
\nfled from their homes. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhere should we go? There\u2019s nowhere to go,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Israel has not yet commented on the strike but says its military
\naction in Lebanon is targeting the Iran-backed group Hezbollah. Over the
\nweekend, the Israeli military said it had targeted Iranian commanders at a
\ncentral Beirut hotel. The Iranian government condemned the strike, calling it a
\n“cowardly terrorist assassination of four diplomats\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man describes ‘panic’ after Israeli strike on Beirut beachpublished at 12:42 GMT 12:42 GMT Alice CuddyReporting from Beirut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-342520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}