{"id":769991,"date":"2026-07-18T09:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T09:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/769991\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T09:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T09:33:08","slug":"us-and-iran-exchange-strikes-as-they-struggle-over-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/769991\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Iran exchange strikes as they struggle over Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ZAMOBJ2STNGMBMH6VTGGEA3EZI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">DUBAI, United Arab Emirates \u2014 The United States and Iran exchanged strikes aimed at infrastructure and military targets on Saturday as their battle over the Strait of Hormuz intensified.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"UOHGU5LSJFABLKRSGQBRICMTGQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The region has endured days of back-and-forth attacks in a conflict increasingly focused on control of the strait. The collapse of an interim ceasefire leaves no clear end in sight for the war that the U.S. and Israel began more than four months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates \u2014 The United States and Iran exchanged strikes aimed at infrastructure and military targets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[232237,23,6659,793,254258,3,2229,21,19,22,20,25,24,965],"class_list":["post-769991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","tag-america","tag-fires","tag-general-news","tag-ml-iran-us","tag-news","tag-religion","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769991","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=769991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}