{"id":381889,"date":"2026-04-08T19:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/381889\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:19:06","slug":"the-latest-iran-closes-the-strait-of-hormuz-in-response-to-israeli-attacks-on-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/381889\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest: Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HZETBZBH35BGPKVU343T5TSXPQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Iran, the United States and Israel agreed to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-israel-trump-lebanon-april-8-2026-38d75d5e4f1c7339a1456fc99415bb2a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a two-week ceasefire<\/a> on Tuesday, an 11th-hour deal that headed off U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-iran-ceasefire-strait-hormuz-eddbcc14e06a6dcb5c7cc41021120fa8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">threat to unleash<\/a> a bombing campaign that would destroy Iranian civilization. Hours after the announcement, Iran and Gulf Arab countries reported new attacks Wednesday, though it was not clear if the strikes would scuttle the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran, the United States and Israel agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday, an 11th-hour deal that headed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[122,85,119,117780,46,160714,43,238,7319,120593,917,121,126],"class_list":["post-381889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-general-news","tag-il","tag-international-agreements","tag-iran-war","tag-israel","tag-ml-iran-us-the-latest","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-religion","tag-trump-media-technology-group-corp","tag-u-s-news","tag-war-and-unrest","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381889","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=381889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}