{"id":42225,"date":"2024-04-19T07:28:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T07:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=42225"},"modified":"2024-04-19T07:28:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T07:28:44","slug":"middle-east-crisis-latest-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/04\/19\/middle-east-crisis-latest-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East Crisis: Latest Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s morning in both Iran and Israel and below is the summary of all events<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>US officials have confirmed that\u00a0Israel has carried out airstrikes\u00a0against Iran\u00a0as explosions were reported in the sky over the cities of Isfahan and Tabriz.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Air defence systems over several Iranian cities were activated, state media reported<\/strong>, after the country\u2019s official broadcaster said explosions were heard near the city of\u00a0<strong>Isfahan<\/strong>, home to sites associated with Iran\u2019s nuclear program, including its underground\u00a0<strong>Natanz<\/strong>\u00a0enrichment site.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says there is no damage to Iran\u2019s nuclear sites.\u00a0<\/strong>In a post on X, the agency said it continues to monitor the situation very closely and calls for extreme restraint from all sides, stressing that \u201cnuclear facilities should never be a target in military conflicts\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Iran\u2019s Fars news agency reported \u201cthree explosions\u201d were heard near the Shekari army airbase in the north-west of Isfahan province<\/strong>, while Iran\u2019s space agency spokesperson Hossein Dalirian said \u201cseveral\u201d drones had been \u201csuccessfully shot down\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Commercial flights including Dubai-based carriers Emirates and FlyDubai began diverting their routes early on Friday morning<\/strong>\u00a0over western Iran without explanation. Local warnings to aviators suggested the airspace may have been closed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mehr news agency reported that \u201cflights to Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz, and airports in the west, northwest and southwest have been suspended<\/strong>.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Flight-tracking software showed commercial flights avoiding western Iran, including Isfahan<\/strong>, and skirting Tehran to the north and east.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Iran\u2019s civil aviation organisation says flight restrictions in several airports have been lifted<\/strong>, according to Tasnim, a semi-official Iranian news agency.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Iran appeared to downplay the attack, as a senior commander in Iran\u2019s army Siavosh Mihandoust\u00a0<\/strong>has told the country\u2019s state TV on Friday that no damage was caused. He added that the noise heard overnight in Isfahan was due to air defence systems targeting a \u201csuspicious object\u201d, reports Reuters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s morning in both Iran and Israel and below is the summary of all events<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8217,5304,10870,4321,9331,8440,7445,6695,6732,5494,9567,11355,10954,6581,3095,10991,8719,5572,7964,6666,10165,11259,9271,5470,7444,6348,10353],"class_list":["post-42225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-army","tag-attack","tag-aviation","tag-broadcaster","tag-city","tag-crisis","tag-drones","tag-dubai","tag-emirates","tag-energy","tag-explosions","tag-flight","tag-international","tag-iraq","tag-israel","tag-itaq","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-north","tag-nuclear","tag-nuclear-program","tag-shot","tag-sky","tag-space","tag-tehran","tag-us","tag-x"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42227,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42225\/revisions\/42227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}