{"id":24663,"date":"2026-09-09T05:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=24663"},"modified":"2026-09-09T05:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:45:11","slug":"middle-east-war-escalates-as-u-s-iran-exchange-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/09\/09\/middle-east-war-escalates-as-u-s-iran-exchange-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East war escalates as U.S., Iran exchange attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Reuters reports that amid escalating conflict in the Middle East, U.S. forces have destroyed five Iranian oil tankers, while Iran has launched a ballistic missile attack on a U.S. base in Jordan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report, Iran attacked in response to the U.S. destruction of the Iranian oil tankers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jordanian authorities said they intercepted 18 of the 20 missiles launched by Iran and that the attack caused no fatalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Iran-aligned Houthi fighters have also attacked cities in southern Saudi Arabia and oil facilities in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saudi officials said 73 people were injured in the attacks and that fires broke out at some oil facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The continued attacks have raised concerns about a further expansion of the conflict across the region, while global oil markets are facing the risk of potential disruptions to energy supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Reuters reports that amid escalating conflict in the Middle East, U.S. forces have destroyed five Iranian oil tankers, while Iran has launched a ballistic missile attack on a U.S. base in Jordan. According to the report, Iran attacked in response to the U.S. destruction of the Iranian oil tankers. Jordanian authorities said they intercepted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24664,"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\/24663"}],"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=24663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24665,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24663\/revisions\/24665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}