{"id":323920,"date":"2026-03-05T23:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/323920\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:04:08","slug":"u-s-iran-live-updates-trump-wants-role-in-picking-irans-leader-israel-warns-lebanese-to-flee-in-day-6-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/323920\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-Iran live updates: Trump wants role in picking Iran\u2019s leader; Israel warns Lebanese to flee in Day 6 of war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3N2S7MQEYBBRFMFAALY2KEL2TU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-fTBRgi-isLiveArticle-true wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">President Donald Trump said he should have a say in choosing Iran\u2019s next supreme leader, and fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon intensified Thursday as the U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran entered its sixth day. The House rejected a bipartisan measure intended to halt further U.S. military action in Iran. \u201cSave your lives and evacuate your homes immediately,\u201d Israeli forces warned residents across southern Lebanon and Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs on Thursday. The evacuation area included the dense neighborhood of Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah stronghold. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/araghchi\/status\/2029435610922996100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> the United States would \u201cbitterly regret\u201d sinking the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean. Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates reported fresh attacks, as Iran said it launched retaliatory strikes throughout the region, including against Kurdish forces in Iraq. Iran denied firing a missile toward Turkey a day after Turkey said NATO air defenses shot down an Iranian ballistic missile heading toward its airspace. Targeting Turkey, a NATO member, would be a major escalation in the conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said he should have a say in choosing Iran\u2019s next supreme leader, and fighting between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-323920","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\/323920","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=323920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}