{"id":365654,"date":"2026-03-30T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/365654\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:18:08","slug":"war-in-the-middle-east-latest-developments-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/365654\/","title":{"rendered":"War in the Middle East: latest developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                Commander confirmed dead<\/p>\n<p>Iran confirmed on Monday that Revolutionary Guards commander Alireza Tangsiri had been killed, days after Israel said it targeted him in an air strike.<\/p>\n<p>A statement carried by the Guards&#8217; Sepah News website said Tangsiri &#8220;succumbed to severe injuries&#8221; from the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Missile sites hit<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s military said it had struck dozens of weapons production sites including a long-range surface-to-air missiles manufacturing line in Iran&#8217;s capital Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran power restored<\/p>\n<p>Iran has restored electricity in parts of the capital and nearby areas after strikes damaged power grids and briefly disrupted supply, the deputy energy minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Beirut suburb hit<\/p>\n<p>A strike hit Beirut&#8217;s southern suburbs on Monday, AFPTV footage showed, after Israel issued a warning for people in the Hezbollah stronghold to leave.<\/p>\n<p>The strike was the first since Friday in the area, which is now largely deserted following Israeli attacks on the Iran-backed group. The Israeli military said it was striking Hezbollah targets in Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>Peacekeeper killed<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e715cc16d8458711a76757d425daed4eb9b7cf81.jpg\"   alt=\"Damage from a strike in eastern Tehran that was hit by a missile strike, on March 28, 2026\" style=\"max-height:567px\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"a-img \"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Damage from a strike in eastern Tehran that was hit by a missile strike, on March 28, 2026                \u00a9 ATTA KENARE \/ AFP            <\/p>\n<p>Indonesia confirmed that one of its peacekeepers was killed in Lebanon, after the UN force said a projectile hit one of its positions.<\/p>\n<p>The Indonesian foreign ministry said &#8220;indirect artillery fire&#8221; near the town of Adchit al Qusayr killed one of its peacekeepers and wounded three others.<\/p>\n<p>Kharg Island<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump said in an interview with The Financial Times that the United States could take Iran&#8217;s Kharg Island &#8220;very easily&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the state of Iranian defence on the island, which houses a vital oil terminal, Trump said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think they have any defence. We could take it very easily.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saudi intercepts missiles<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s defence ministry said its forces detected and intercepted five ballistic missiles aimed at the kingdom&#8217;s Eastern Province.<\/p>\n<p>The brief statement posted on X did not specify where the missiles originated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Regime change&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said Sunday the US-Israel war had achieved regime change in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re dealing with different people than anybody&#8217;s dealt with before. It&#8217;s a whole different group of people. So I would consider that regime change,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Deadly Kuwait strike<\/p>\n<p>An Iranian strike on a power station in Kuwait killed one Indian worker and damaged a building at the site, the Gulf state&#8217;s electricity ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Israel boosts defence spending<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s parliament passed its 2026 budget, including about $10 billion in new military spending, bringing the country&#8217;s total defence budget to about $45 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s heavy water plant<\/p>\n<p>The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran&#8217;s heavy water production plant in Khondab had sustained severe damage and was no longer operational after an Israeli strike.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military said Friday it carried out a strike against a heavy water plant in Arak, central Iran, describing the site as a &#8220;key plutonium production site for nuclear weapons&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan talks<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan said it was ready to broker and host &#8220;meaningful talks&#8221; between the United States and Iran to bring an end to their war, outlining growing support for its peace efforts, including from the United Nations and China.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign ministers from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey met in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador refuses<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s ambassador will not leave Lebanon despite being declared persona non grata and ordered to quit the country, an Iranian diplomatic source has told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon&#8217;s foreign ministry accused him of making statements &#8220;interfering in Lebanon&#8217;s internal politics&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>University hit<\/p>\n<p>A university in Iran&#8217;s central city of Isfahan said it was hit by US-Israeli airstrikes for the second time since the war erupted.<\/p>\n<p>Kuwait attack<\/p>\n<p>Kuwait&#8217;s defence ministry said 10 service members were injured in an attack on a military camp.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon toll rises<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon&#8217;s health ministry said Israeli strikes had killed 1,238 people in the country since the start of the latest war with Iran-backed Hezbollah on March 2.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli expansion<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered his military to &#8220;further expand&#8221; a security zone in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>30 days offline<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s nationwide internet blackout has now lasted 30 days, leaving millions cut off from information and communication since the war began.<\/p>\n<p>burs\/yad\/jhb<\/p>\n<p class=\"t-copyright\">\u00a9 2026 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commander confirmed dead Iran confirmed on Monday that Revolutionary Guards commander Alireza Tangsiri had been killed, days after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-365654","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\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365654","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=365654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}