{"id":750040,"date":"2026-07-08T07:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/750040\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T07:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:14:14","slug":"nato-chief-endorses-us-strikes-on-iran-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/750040\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO chief endorses US strikes on Iran – Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday defended the
\nlatest US strikes on Iran as “very necessary,” stressing that the
\nStrait of Hormuz, a key route for global energy shipments, must remain fully
\nopen.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the NATO summit in Ankara, Rutte accused Tehran
\nof violating the recently signed<\/a> US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding and backed
\nWashington\u2019s position on Iran\u2019s nuclear file, reiterating that Tehran
\n“should never get its hands on a nuclear capability.”<\/p>\n

Addressing US concerns over the positions taken by some
\nNATO allies, including the refusal of some countries to join the Iran war,
\nRutte noted that Washington\u2019s disappointment was limited to “individual
\ncases.”<\/p>\n

United States Central Command (CENTCOM) reported<\/a> earlier on
\nWednesday a series of “powerful” strikes against 80 targets in Iran
\nin response to “attacks on three commercial vessels transiting
\nHormuz.”<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) retaliated
\nby targeting US military installations<\/a> in Kuwait and Bahrain with ballistic
\nmissiles and drones, while also downing a US MQ-9 drone over Bushehr Province.
\nThe IRGC stated that the operation targeted 85 military facilities at Ali Al
\nSalem Air Base in Kuwait and the US United States Fifth Fleet headquarters in
\nBahrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-08T06:48:09+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Ankara NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20279,4,450,451,801,8654,5855,321668,3,210369,452,453,24],"class_list":["post-750040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-attacks","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-mark-rutte","tag-nato","tag-nato-chief-endorses-us-strikes-on-iran","tag-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750040","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=750040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}