US President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to \u201cobliterate\u201d Iran\u2019s power plants if Tehran does not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, a dramatic escalation that came barely a day after he talked about \u201cwinding down\u201d the war.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Iran doesn\u2019t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, \u200cthe Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!\u201d Trump said on social media.<\/p>\n
The threat landed as the conflict entered dangerous new territory.<\/p>\n
Israeli officials said that Iranian forces had for the first time fired long-range missiles, expanding the risk of attacks beyond the Middle East, even as an Iranian strike injured dozens of people not far from Israel\u2019s nuclear \u2060site.<\/p>\n
Iran launched two 4,000km (2,485 miles) range ballistic missiles at the US-UK military base Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, Israeli military chief Eyal Zamir \u200csaid. The Israeli military said it was the \u201cfirst time\u201d Iran had used long-range missiles since the United States and Israel began attacking Iran on February 28.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese missiles are not intended to strike Israel. Their range \u200creaches European capitals \u2013 Berlin, Paris and Rome are all within direct threat range,\u201d Zamir said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to \u201cobliterate\u201d Iran\u2019s power plants if Tehran does not fully reopen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,240970,5620,8198,240966,12,240968,240969,208769,37303,801,240967,803,240971,3,593,210369,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-537739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-arad","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-berlin","tag-dimona","tag-donald-trump","tag-effie-defrin","tag-european-capitals","tag-eyal-zamir","tag-indian-ocean","tag-iran","tag-iranian-revolutionary-guards","tag-israel","tag-nevatim-airbase","tag-news","tag-paris","tag-strait-of-hormuz","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\/537739","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=537739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}