{"id":21503,"date":"2026-05-26T04:40:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=21503"},"modified":"2026-05-26T04:40:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:40:46","slug":"u-s-conducts-strikes-in-southern-iran-centcom-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/05\/26\/u-s-conducts-strikes-in-southern-iran-centcom-says\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. conducts strikes in Southern Iran, CENTCOM says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: The United States Central Command said it carried out what it described as a \u201cdefensive operation\u201d targeting rocket launch sites and Iranian vessels in the Persian Gulf.<br>According to Fox News, a spokesperson for CENTCOM said the strikes were conducted in self-defense to protect U.S. forces from threats posed by Iranian forces.<br>The report said the targets included rocket-launch facilities and Iranian ships that, according to U.S. officials, were attempting to conduct mine-laying operations in the Gulf region.<br>Iranian authorities have not yet officially commented on the reported attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The United States Central Command said it carried out what it described as a \u201cdefensive operation\u201d targeting rocket launch sites and Iranian vessels in the Persian Gulf.According to Fox News, a spokesperson for CENTCOM said the strikes were conducted in self-defense to protect U.S. forces from threats posed by Iranian forces.The report said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21500,"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\/21503"}],"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=21503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21504,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503\/revisions\/21504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}