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Live Updates: Latest from Israel, Iran, and the Middle East | The Jerusalem PostIDF targets Hamas chiefs in Gaza \u2022 IDF Gaza Division seals two Hamas tunnels spanning two kilometers along Yellow Line \u2022 IDF chief says that Israel will maintain Syria buffer zoneFollow us on Google<\/a>\"AA military helicopter flies above a Syrian flag during the Syria Summer Family Festival in Damascus, Syria, on August 9, 2026. (photo credit: Omar Albam \/ Middle East Images \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

August 20, 5:34 AM<\/p>\n

Hormuz shipping traffic shows no uptick in US-Iran geopolitical stalemate, according to dataByREUTERS<\/p>\n

August 20, 5:15 AM<\/p>\n

Trump declares ‘Economic D-Day’ against Iran, promises consequences to any country providing aid”Oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries, front companies – It all needs to stop NOW,” Trump wrote. “You know who you are.”ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF<\/a>\"Enlarge\"\"USUS President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, US, August 7, 2026(photo credit: REUTERS\/ELIZABETH FRANTZ)Go to the full article > ><\/a><\/p>\n

August 20, 5:15 AM<\/p>\n

Syria FM claims Israel was told that Turkey was not building forces before airbase strikes – reportUS President Donald Trump told\u00a0Axios that he had been briefed on the Israeli strikes against Syria, but declined to specify whether the briefing had come before or after the strikes occurred.ByTZVI JASPER<\/a>\"Enlarge\"\" Syria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Asaad Hasan al-Shaibani attends a panel discussion, “New Dawn for Damascus: Prospects for Syria’s Transition”, during the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, Germany, February 15, 2025. (photo credit: REUTERS\/WOLFGANG RATTAY)Go to the full article > ><\/a><\/p>\n

August 20, 5:15 AM<\/p>\n

US military created secret path through Hormuz, 10 million barrels of oil pass daily – reportUS President Donald Trump told reporters “The Strait is open. A lot of boats are coming through, adding that “We are getting a lot of oil out.”ByESTHER DAVIS<\/a>\"Enlarge\"\"AA drone view shows vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, June 15, 2026.(photo credit: REUTERS\/STRINGER\/FILE PHOTO)Go to the full article > ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Live Updates: Latest from Israel, Iran, and the Middle East | The Jerusalem PostIDF targets Hamas chiefs in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,141,38,359,1411,100,423,34,424,46,93,2206,38528,49,2289,212,92,101,95,1176],"class_list":["post-257034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-centcom","tag-donald-trump","tag-gulf","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-iran","tag-irgc","tag-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps","tag-lebanon","tag-live-updates","tag-memorandum-of-understanding","tag-middle-east","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-operation-roaring-lion","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-syria","tag-turkey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117125677671742382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257034","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=257034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}