{"id":19761,"date":"2026-03-15T00:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/19761\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T00:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:37:23","slug":"iran-war-entering-decisive-phase-israel-says-as-attacks-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/19761\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war entering \u2018decisive phase\u2019, Israel says, as attacks continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Israel said the war against Iran was entering its \u201cdecisive phase\u201d on Saturday, as explosions rocked cities across the Middle East, with strikes on the US embassy in Baghdad and a major Emirati energy facility.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Washington\u2019s embassy in Iraq was hit by a drone, security sources said, the second time it had been targeted since February 28, when the United States and Israel attacked Iran and plunged the Gulf into a conflict that has sent shock waves through the global economy.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Millions have been displaced by waves of drone, missile and aerial bombing, while more than 1,200 people have reportedly been killed in Iran, with little sign of the conflict slowing as it entered its third week.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Oil prices have surged by 40 per cent as Iran chokes off the vital Strait of Hormuz with threats to shipping and strikes on Gulf energy facilities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A video grab shows smoke billowing from the US embassy in Baghdad\u2019s fortified \u201cGreen Zone\u201d following a reported drone strike on Saturday. Photo: various sources \/ AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/8d611239-5e28-469e-bc5b-23bc21634d49_21736998.jpg\" title=\"A video grab shows smoke billowing from the US embassy in Baghdad\u2019s fortified \u201cGreen Zone\u201d following a reported drone strike on Saturday. Photo: various sources \/ AFP\"\/>A video grab shows smoke billowing from the US embassy in Baghdad\u2019s fortified \u201cGreen Zone\u201d following a reported drone strike on Saturday. Photo: various sources \/ AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Clouds of black smoke rose on Saturday over Fujairah, home to a major Emirati oil storage and export terminal, shortly after Iran\u2019s military warned UAE civilians to avoid port areas.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Fujairah, outside the Strait of Hormuz, is the outlet for about 1 million barrels per day of the United Arab Emirates\u2019 Murban crude oil \u2013 a volume equal to about 1 per cent of world demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel said the war against Iran was entering its \u201cdecisive phase\u201d on Saturday, as explosions rocked cities across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6455,327,1711,1965,38,9845,1411,100,34,37,1189,2601,93,1441,1486],"class_list":{"0":"post-19761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-agence-france-presse","9":"tag-ali-khamenei","10":"tag-baghdad","11":"tag-doha","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-fujairah","14":"tag-hamas","15":"tag-hezbollah","16":"tag-iran","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-jerusalem","19":"tag-kharg-island","20":"tag-lebanon","21":"tag-naim-qassem","22":"tag-nato"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116230399012610102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}