{"id":690910,"date":"2026-06-08T03:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/690910\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T03:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:16:11","slug":"israel-says-it-has-struck-iran-after-taking-missile-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/690910\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel says it has struck Iran after taking missile fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">JERUSALEM (AP) \u2014 Israel launched airstrikes early Monday targeting central and western Iran in response to missile fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Iranian state television reported the sound of explosions being heard in Isfahan, Tabriz and Tehran, without immediately elaborating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Iran closed the airspace around Tehran\u2019s Imam Khomeini International Airport, the country\u2019s main airfield, after the Israeli attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The attacks further strain efforts to reach a permanent ceasefire in the war between Iran and the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Earlier, Iran launched missiles at Israel in the first such bombardment since a fragile ceasefire took effect in early April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The exchange raised the possibility of a return to heavy fighting and complicating mediation efforts to end\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the war.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JERUSALEM (AP) \u2014 Israel launched airstrikes early Monday targeting central and western Iran in response to missile fire.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8212,4,450,34186,12530,451,232336,299859,299860,299858,228242,803,299861,299857,226987,299862,3,60417,452,453],"class_list":["post-690910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-attack","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-ceasefire","tag-deal","tag-headlines","tag-iran-conflict","tag-iran-missiel-strikes","tag-iran-missile-strikes","tag-iran-strike-israel","tag-iran-war","tag-israel","tag-israel-missile-strike","tag-israel-strike-iran","tag-missile-strikes","tag-negotations","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690910","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=690910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}