“We are also focused on dismantling Iran\u2019s decades-long threat to the free flow of commerce in the Strait of Hormuz. Through a combination of air, land and maritime operations, we have destroyed more than 100 Iranian naval vessels.<\/p>\n
“We will continue to deplete Iran\u2019s ability to threaten freedom of navigation in and around the strait.<\/p>\n
“Over the past two weeks, Iran has launched attacks on Oman, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Cyprus, Turkey, Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain. In many cases, civilians have been targeted. These attacks have occurred more than 300 times and demonstrate Iran\u2019s role as a state sponsor of terror.<\/p>\n
“In recent days, the Iranian regime also launched an attack using cluster munitions against civilian neighbourhoods in Tel Aviv – an inherently indiscriminate weapon. We join partners across the region in condemning this aggression.<\/p>\n
“Iran\u2019s capabilities are declining, while ours continue to grow.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“We are also focused on dismantling Iran\u2019s decades-long threat to the free flow of commerce in the Strait…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[141,170004,49,3105,50,163474,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-479099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-global-energy-markets","tag-headlines","tag-nato","tag-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479099","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=479099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}