{"id":48976,"date":"2026-03-18T06:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=48976"},"modified":"2026-07-05T21:46:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T21:46:02","slug":"usisreal-and-iran-conflict-latest-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2026\/03\/18\/usisreal-and-iran-conflict-latest-development\/","title":{"rendered":"US,Isreal and Iran Conflict: Latest Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the latest developments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Iranian army has vowed revenge for the killing of security chief Ali Larijani in an Israeli airstrike,\u00a0<\/strong>with Iran\u2019s army chief threatening to launch a \u201cdecisive and regrettable\u201d retaliation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Iran also confirmed the<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>death of the Basij militia commander Gholamreza Soleimani, after Israel earlier claimed its military assassinated him.<\/strong>\u00a0It marks the highest level assassination in the war since joint US-Israeli strikes killed the former supreme leader Ali Khamenei on 28 February.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Israeli military called on residents of a central Beirut neighbourhood to evacuate early Wednesday<\/strong>, warning of an imminent attack on the Lebanese capital targeting Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. In a statement on social media, the military\u2019s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee issued \u201can urgent warning to residents of&#8230; Bashoura neighbourhood\u201d, saying Israeli forces would operate against a Hezbollah facility there.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Donald Trump continued to lash out at Nato allies<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>claiming \u201cwe don\u2019t need\u201d their help in the Iran war<\/strong>\u00a0after pressuring them to help the US secure the strait of Hormuz, but added that \u201cthey should\u2019ve been there\u201d. Trump said Nato was making a \u201cfoolish mistake\u201d and once again framed the issue as a loyalty test for the alliance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The US military said it targeted sites along Iran\u2019s coastline near the strait of Hormuz<\/strong>\u00a0because Iranian anti-ship missiles posed a risk to international shipping there. US Central Command said US forces successfully employed \u201cmultiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions\u201d in the strikes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Trump\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>former<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>director of the national counterterrorism center Joe Kent quit, saying he \u201ccannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran\u201d.<\/strong>\u00a0In his resignation letter, Kent accused \u201chigh-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media\u201d of deploying \u201ca misinformation campaign\u201d that ultimately \u201csowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Israel\u2019s assault on Lebanon has killed at least 912 people, including 111 children,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>and wounded<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>2,221 others,\u00a0<\/strong>per the Lebanese health ministry, with over a million people displaced.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Israeli attacks on residential buildings and civilian infrastructure in Lebanon may amount to war crimes, the United Nations human rights office said.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Israeli military earlier issued a fresh evacuation order for the coastal Lebanese city of Tyre<\/strong>\u00a0and its surrounding villages and Palestinian refugee camps, sparking an exodus of residents from Lebanon\u2019s fourth largest city.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A projectile hit the premises of Iran\u2019s Bushehr nuclear power plant on Tuesday night.\u00a0<\/strong>But no damage to the plant or injuries to staff were reported, Iran told the UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the latest developments:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11261,9436,13006,6728,8217,10410,8439,183,5304,11394,13005,10387,11583,287,9331,10767,7234,5846,5494,9203,9127,12634,10754,10840,8995,11525,10954,1759,3095,11262,9515,10454,9666,9667,10748,5572,8101,12985,12085,4802,6666,5925,5568,13362,10302,6134,5462,5807,5655,13008,5250,5349,12972,12794,5465,7999,6348,9516,12966,5251,5761],"class_list":["post-48976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-accused","tag-airstrike","tag-ali-larijani","tag-alliance","tag-army","tag-assassinated","tag-assassination","tag-assault","tag-attack","tag-attacks","tag-basij-militia","tag-campaign","tag-capital","tag-children","tag-city","tag-conflict","tag-death","tag-displaced","tag-energy","tag-evacuation","tag-february","tag-health","tag-hezbollah","tag-human-rights","tag-infrastructure","tag-injuries","tag-international","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-kent","tag-killed","tag-killing","tag-lebanese","tag-lebanon","tag-militant","tag-military","tag-militia","tag-missiles","tag-nations","tag-nato","tag-nuclear","tag-nuclear-power","tag-palestinian","tag-past-supreme-leader-of-iran-ali-khamenei","tag-plant","tag-refugee","tag-residential","tag-risk","tag-security","tag-security-chief","tag-ship","tag-social-media","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-supreme-leader","tag-un","tag-united-nations","tag-us","tag-us-military","tag-us-israeli","tag-war","tag-war-crimes"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48976","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=48976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48977,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48976\/revisions\/48977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}