{"id":525088,"date":"2026-03-15T14:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/525088\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:05:15","slug":"israel-launches-a-wave-of-extensive-strikes-across-western-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/525088\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel launches a wave of \u201cextensive strikes\u201d across western Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update: The\u00a0Israel Defense Forces\u00a0(IDF), the country\u2019s military, said in a post on X\u00a0that it had launched a wave of \u201cextensive strikes\u201d across western Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It claims it is striking \u201cinfrastructure\u201d of the Iranian regime,&#8221; per The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>In the last hours, the IDF said on X that Iran continued to launch missiles toward the territory of the State of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefense systems are operating to intercept the threat,\u201d the IDF added, while warning citizens to enter protective spaces.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) pledged to target Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the war with the US and\u00a0Israel continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to pursue and kill him with full force,\u201d the Guards said of Netanyahu on Sunday, in a statement on their Sepah <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/news\" data-fxs-autoanchor=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Iran accused \u201cthe enemy\u201d of using\u00a0copycat drones to attack neighbouring countries and put the blame on Tehran, amid intense anger over its retaliatory strikes across the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Market implications<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the weekly open on Monday, traders may see renewed risk-off momentum as the Middle East conflict drags on, with Oil and the US Dollar likely attracting fresh buying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update: The\u00a0Israel Defense Forces\u00a0(IDF), the country\u2019s military, said in a post on X\u00a0that it had launched a wave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-525088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}