{"id":534909,"date":"2026-03-20T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/534909\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:41:09","slug":"live-updates-iran-war-oil-rises-to-110-as-israel-strikes-during-persian-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/534909\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Iran war; oil rises to $110 as Israel strikes during Persian new year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2266894866.jpg?c=original&amp;q=w_1280,c_fill\/f_avif\" alt=\"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on Thursday.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1333\" width=\"2000\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmyv5e8300023j6ual2i8vf9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            It\u2019s no surprise that some of the first words out of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s mouth at Thursday\u2019s press conference were \u201cUnder President Trump\u2019s visionary leadership.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmyv6nix00043j6u4ed95cl1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Netanyahu had one primary goal in mind: to lavish praise on the US president and parrot White House messaging. As the war in Iran reaches the three-week mark, neither Netanyahu nor President Donald Trump are showing any intention of seeking an off-ramp, especially after Tehran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz and attacked Gulf energy facilities.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmyv6nix00053j6uj6if03wn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Like Trump, Netanyahu leveled criticism at countries that aren\u2019t joining the war effort. \u201cIf leaders are honest, they would understand that we\u2019re not only fighting our fight, we\u2019re fighting their fight.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmyv6nix00063j6u6tfe8sso@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Like Trump, Netanyahu portrayed the war as starting nearly 50 years ago with the Islamic revolution in Iran, accusing the regime of having \u201cwaged war against America and Israel and the people of Iran for 47 years.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmyv6nix00073j6u0jeabsk6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            And like Trump, Netanyahu made it clear that it\u2019s the US leading the war effort, not Israel. \u201cHe\u2019s the leader. I\u2019m, you know, his ally. America is the leader.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmyv6nix00083j6u6zkvi3gc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Coming into the press conference, the biggest apparent disagreement had been about Israel\u2019s strike on Iran\u2019s South Pars natural gas infrastructure. Trump claimed the US knew nothing about it, even though American and Israeli officials say the attack was coordinated and the US was aware. Here, Netanyahu was careful with his wording. \u201cIsrael acted alone,\u201d he said, which doesn\u2019t say anything about the coordination around what we already knew was a unilateral strike.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmyv6nix00093j6u6bdrm91v@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Despite planning for several more weeks of war and thousands of targets, Israeli officials have long believed this war will end when Trump decides he\u2019s won. That\u2019s what happened in June to end the 12-day war between Israel and Iran.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmyv6nix000a3j6u0qydprau@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            One of Netanyahu\u2019s apparent goals behind the press conference was to keep Trump involved in the war for as long as possible. Now, Israel believes Trump may be ready for a longer war. The Iranian strikes on energy infrastructure around the Gulf, which sent gas prices soaring in the US, strengthened Trump\u2019s resolve, a senior Israeli official told CNN. \u201cThe event in (the Strait of) Hormuz is dangerous in the long term for US interests,\u201d the official said.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s no surprise that some of the first words out of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s mouth at Thursday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-534909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534909","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=534909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}