{"id":449911,"date":"2026-02-28T07:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449911\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T07:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:53:06","slug":"israel-launches-attack-on-iran-as-explosions-heard-in-tehran-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449911\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel launches attack on Iran as explosions heard in Tehran | Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Israel has attacked Iran, an Israeli military spokesperson said, with the strikes being coordinated alongside the US military, according to US and Israeli media reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Explosions were heard in central Tehran on Saturday morning, including from an apparent strike near the offices of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The attack came hours after the US president, Donald Trump, said he was \u201cnot happy\u201d about the latest negotiations with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> over its nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The US had built up a large military presence in the region in recent weeks, including two aircraft carrier strike groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">An Israeli military spokesperson said the country had \u201claunched a pre-emptive strike against Iran to remove threats to the state of Israel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Israel closed its airspace and declared a state of emergency in anticipation of Iranian drone and missile strikes in response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"> More details soon \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel has attacked Iran, an Israeli military spokesperson said, with the strikes being coordinated alongside the US military,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-449911","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}