{"id":19145,"date":"2026-03-07T11:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=19145"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:05:22","slug":"u-s-bypasses-congress-to-approve-151-million-arms-deal-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/03\/07\/u-s-bypasses-congress-to-approve-151-million-arms-deal-with-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. bypasses Congress to approve $151 million arms deal with Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: The United States government, led by President Donald Trump, has approved the urgent sale of a weapons package worth $151 million to Israel, invoking emergency authority to bypass congressional review requirements.<br>According to a report published Saturday by Turkish media outlet TRT, in a statement, the U.S. Department of State\u2019s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs said the package includes 12,000 BLU-110A\/B bombs, each weighing 1,000 pounds (about 453 kilograms), along with related engineering and technical support.<br>Part of the statement noted: \u201cThe Secretary of State had determined and provided justification that an emergency situation exists requiring the immediate sale to the Israeli government.\u201d<br>The approval comes as the United States and Israel have been carrying out strikes against Iran for more than a week, reportedly using thousands of kilograms of bombs and hundreds of missiles, with the attacks still ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The United States government, led by President Donald Trump, has approved the urgent sale of a weapons package worth $151 million to Israel, invoking emergency authority to bypass congressional review requirements.According to a report published Saturday by Turkish media outlet TRT, in a statement, the U.S. Department of State\u2019s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19147,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145\/revisions\/19147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}