{"id":473129,"date":"2026-03-13T09:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473129\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:07:09","slug":"iran-war-live-trump-makes-watch-what-happens-threat-to-middle-east-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473129\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war LIVE Trump makes &#8216;watch what happens&#8217; threat to Middle East | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Middle East <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/2181665\/british-troops-iraq-burn-missiles-iran-war-putin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">continues to burn<\/a> President Donald Trump has made a <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2181449\/irans-new-leader-says-all\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chilling threat<\/a> to &#8216;watch what happens&#8217; today (Friday, March 13).<\/p>\n<p>The powerful message comes as the leader reiterates that the US has control and is &#8216;winning&#8217; the war.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/showbiz\/tv-radio\/2181634\/fox-news-paused-breaking-trump-humiliating\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s<\/a> latest post shared on his own social media platform claims that the US &#8220;have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">The message comes after a US refueling plane, part of the operation against Iran, went down in western Iraq. U.S. Central Command said rescue efforts were underway and a second plane was involved. It also said the crash was not tied to hostile fire or friendly fire.<\/p>\n<p>The US Treasury have also temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian oil already at sea in a bid to ease <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/finance\/personalfinance\/2180909\/rachel-reeves-holds-talks-halt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crude prices surging<\/a> amid the Iran war. The exemptions, issued on Thursday evening, are set to remain in place until April 11.<\/p>\n<p>THIS IS A LIVE BLOG &#8211; STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST UPDATES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Middle East continues to burn President Donald Trump has made a chilling threat to &#8216;watch what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[141,49,585,152,50,26147,51,47,52,48,10907,636],"class_list":["post-473129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-missiles","tag-news","tag-threat","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trump","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473129","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=473129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}