{"id":539074,"date":"2026-03-22T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/539074\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:56:08","slug":"live-updates-trumps-ultimatum-to-iran-draws-threat-of-retaliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/539074\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump’s ultimatum to Iran draws threat of retaliation"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump warned the U.S. will \u201cobliterate\u201d Iran\u2019s power plants<\/a> if it doesn\u2019t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, prompting Tehran to say it would respond to any such strike with attacks on U.S. and Israeli energy and infrastructure assets in the region.<\/p>\n

Iranian missiles, meanwhile, struck two communities in southern Israel late Saturday, leaving buildings shattered and dozens injured in dual attacks not far from Israel\u2019s main nuclear research center.<\/p>\n

Major developments we\u2019re following:<\/p>\n

A dangerous new threat in the war: Iran targeted the joint U.K.-U.S. Diego Garcia<\/a> military base in the Indian Ocean about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) away, suggesting that Tehran has missiles that can go farther than previously acknowledged \u2014 or that it had used its space program for an improvised launch.Global pressure increases to get shipping back on track: As Iran threatens shipping on the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates joined 21 other countries including the U.K., Germany, France and Japan in expressing \u201creadiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage.\u201dThe death toll from the war has risen to more than 1,500 people in Iran, more than 1,000 people in Lebanon, 15 in Israel and 13 U.S. military members, as well as a number of civilians on land and sea in the Gulf region. Millions of people in Lebanon and Iran have been displaced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump warned the U.S. will \u201cobliterate\u201d Iran\u2019s power plants if it doesn\u2019t fully open the Strait…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1072,228242,803,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-539074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-iran-war","tag-israel","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\/539074","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=539074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}