{"id":538834,"date":"2026-04-19T04:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538834\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T04:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:20:09","slug":"iran-says-it-is-far-from-peace-deal-with-us-as-strait-of-hormuz-closed-again-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538834\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says it is \u2018far\u2019 from peace deal with US, as Strait of Hormuz closed again &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump &#8216;pulled&#8217; into war by Netanyahu, says former VPpublished at 04:44 BST<\/p>\n<p>04:44 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former US Vice President Kamala Harris wears a beige suit, clutching a microphone in both hands.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/45869947-9900-447b-991d-e428fada7ca5.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Vice-President Kamala Harris says Donald Trump has been &#8220;pulled&#8221; into war with Iran by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking at a fundraising event on Saturday, she told the audience: &#8220;He entered a war, got pulled into it by Bibi Netanyahu, let us be clear about that \u2013 entered a war that the American people do not want, putting at risk American service members.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time of reporting, Trump has not responded directly to Harris, but said that Israel has been a &#8220;great ally&#8221; in a post to social media. It read as follows:  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Whether people like Israel or not, they have proven to be a GREAT Ally of the United States of America. They are Courageous, Bold, Loyal, and Smart and, unlike others that have shown their true colors in a moment of conflict and stress, Israel fights hard, and knows how to WIN!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump &#8216;pulled&#8217; into war by Netanyahu, says former VPpublished at 04:44 BST 04:44 BST Image source, Getty Images&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-538834","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\/538834","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=538834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}