{"id":374303,"date":"2026-04-04T07:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/374303\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:09:07","slug":"live-several-blasts-heard-coming-from-northern-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/374303\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Several blasts heard coming from northern Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A bridge struck by US airstrikes on Thursday is seen in the town of Karaj, west of Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 3, 2026. \u00a9 Vahid Salemi, AP <\/p>\n

\n Several blasts were reportedly heard in\u00a0northern Tehran on Saturday\u00a0as the Middle East war neared its sixth week. Meanwhile,\u00a0Iranian and American forces are racing to recover the missing crew member from an American warplane shot down by Iran on Saturday. Follow our liveblog for updates.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

04\/04\/2026 – 08:43Several injured by Israeli strikes on Lebanese city Tyre<\/p>\n

Israel has repeatedly struck the ancient southern Lebanese city of Tyre, where several inhabitants have been injured. But locals are reluctant to leave – citing fears than a temporary order would become permanent displacement. Israel has said that it would not be able to destroy Hezbollah without occupying the whole of Lebanon. FRANCE 24’s Olivia Bizo reports from Beirut in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

04\/04\/2026 – 07:14Fire reported at foreign oil companies’ storage facilities in Iraq after drone strike<\/p>\n

\u2060A \u2060fire \u200bbroke \u200bout early \u200bon \u200cSaturday at \u2060storage \u200cfacilities belonging \u2060to foreign \u200boil \u200ccompanies west \u200cof Iraq’s \u200bBasra after a drone \u200bstrike, \u200bsecurity \u200bsources \u200btold Reuters.<\/p>\n

\n 04\/04\/2026 – 07:04Recap: Two US fighter jets downed in Mideast, one crew member rescued<\/p>\n

04\/04\/2026 – 06:55Iran, US race to find crew member of crashed American fighter jet<\/p>\n

Iranian and American forces raced each other Saturday to recover a crew member of the first US fighter jet to go down inside Iran since the start of the war.<\/p>\n

Tehran said it had shot down the F-15 warplane, while US media reported United States special forces had rescued one of its two crew members, with the other still missing.<\/p>\n

Iran’s military also said it downed a US A-10 ground attack aircraft in the Gulf, with US media saying the pilot was rescued.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump told NBC the F-15 loss would not affect negotiations with Iran, saying: “No, not at all. No, it’s war.<\/p>\n

04\/04\/2026 – 06:54Several blasts heard coming from Tehran’s north<\/p>\n

Several blasts shook northern Tehran on Saturday, an AFP journalist heard, as the Middle East war neared its sixth week.<\/p>\n

The blasts occurred at about 7:30 am (0400 GMT) and were accompanied by a loud sound from above as if coming from a drone, said AFP’s correspondent in the Iranian capital.<\/p>\n

04\/04\/2026 – 06:53Welcome to our liveblog <\/p>\n

Yesterday’s key developments:\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The Israeli military said\u00a0it had begun striking “Hezbollah infrastructure sites” in Lebanon’s capital Beirut.<\/p>\n

Trump briefed on downed plane as both US and Iran race to\u00a0find pilot.<\/p>\n

Trump asked lawmakers to approve a massive $1.5 trillion defence budget for 2027, as the United States faces rising costs from its war with Iran and mounting global security commitments.<\/p>\n

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home Middle East Live Issued on: 04\/04\/2026 – 07:07Modified: 04\/04\/2026 – 08:43 A bridge struck by US airstrikes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,87,117780,88,47,43,40,38,41,39,2586],"class_list":{"0":"post-374303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-iran-war","11":"tag-lebanon","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories","18":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374303","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=374303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}