{"id":784795,"date":"2026-07-26T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/784795\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:00:09","slug":"iran-war-spreads-to-red-sea-and-caspian-but-gulf-quiet-as-u-s-forgoes-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/784795\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war spreads to Red Sea and Caspian, but Gulf quiet as U.S. forgoes strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Athens\/Washington \u2013 Signs of the Iran war\u2019s spread emerged this weekend despite a pause in U.S. strikes, as Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthis attacked Saudi oil installations along the Red Sea coast and Iran accused Ukraine of targeting an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military said on Saturday that its naval blockade against Iran \u201cremains in full effect\u201d but did \u200bnot explain why it halted a streak of 13 nights of escalating strikes. Asked about the pause, a senior official in President Donald Trump\u2019s administration said Trump \u201chas always \u200cbeen clear \u200cthat his preference is diplomacy, but he has shown Iran what will happen if they fail to come to the table in \u200ba serious way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were also no reports Saturday of attacks from Iran on neighboring countries, like those that have been taking place daily in response to the U.S. attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athens\/Washington \u2013 Signs of the Iran war\u2019s spread emerged this weekend despite a pause in U.S. strikes, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,12,86696,801,129,3,131,2830,18846,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-784795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-houthis","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-military","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\/784795","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=784795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}