{"id":319232,"date":"2026-03-03T07:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/319232\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T07:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:52:06","slug":"danger-sprawls-over-mideast-as-u-s-israel-step-up-strikes-iran-hits-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/319232\/","title":{"rendered":"Danger sprawls over Mideast as U.S., Israel step up strikes, Iran hits back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"KLFLOVAFIBDKZBYMNMTBPYBGJ4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">BEIT SHEMESH, Israel \u2014 Even before U.S. and Israeli warplanes struck Iranian targets, officials in Washington and Jerusalem were bracing for retaliation. They had gamed out missile salvos, cyberattacks, proxy strikes on U.S. bases and Israeli cities. What few seemed prepared for was the speed \u2014 and the geographic sprawl \u2014 of the blowback: some 300 million civilians, across more than a dozen nations, suddenly under the umbrella of an escalating war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIT SHEMESH, Israel \u2014 Even before U.S. and Israeli warplanes struck Iranian targets, officials in Washington and Jerusalem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-319232","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\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}