{"id":532231,"date":"2026-03-19T05:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/532231\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T05:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:42:13","slug":"u-s-and-israel-raise-the-stakes-hoping-to-push-iran-to-breaking-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/532231\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and Israel Raise the Stakes, Hoping to Push Iran to Breaking Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">As Thursday, the war&#8217;s 20th day, approached, Israel and the United States expanded their attacks on Iran&#8217;s energy industry. On Wednesday, the Israel Air Force struck gas fields in southern Iran in the largest bombing of its kind since the beginning of the war. The move, which according to Israeli sources was carried out in full coordination with the Americans this time, appears to be an attempt to increase pressure on the Iranian regime with the hope of bringing it to breaking point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Thursday, the war&#8217;s 20th day, approached, Israel and the United States expanded their attacks on Iran&#8217;s energy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226900,5620,4,450,12,451,158238,13467,801,124437,220428,129,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-532231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-2026-israel-iran-war","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-iran","tag-israel-u-s","tag-israel-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532231","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=532231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}