{"id":99899,"date":"2026-05-06T03:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/99899\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T03:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:50:16","slug":"live-updates-latest-from-israel-iran-and-middle-east-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/99899\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Updates: Latest from Israel, Iran, and Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel and the US launched Operations Roaring Lion and Epic Fury on February 28, with the stated aim of creating conditions for regime change<\/p>\n<p>Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed by an Israeli strike on a Tehran bunker. Iran\u2019s defense minister and several IRGC generals were also killed in the largest-ever aerial attack by the IAF<\/p>\n<p>Iran retaliated by firing across the Middle East at Gulf nations and US military bases in the region<\/p>\n<p>Twelve IDF soldiers and 23 civilians have been killed, and at least 7,693 more injured in ballistic missile attacks across Israel since February 28 \u2022 13 US soldiers killed, CENTCOM says\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A ceasefire deal was announced on April 7 and went into effect on April 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel and the US launched Operations Roaring Lion and Epic Fury on February 28, with the stated aim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[38,711,100,34,905,215,2206,49,1258,212,92,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-99899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-drone","10":"tag-hezbollah","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-iran-missiles","13":"tag-israel-iran-war","14":"tag-live-updates","15":"tag-middle-east","16":"tag-nuclear","17":"tag-operation-epic-fury","18":"tag-operation-roaring-lion","19":"tag-strait-of-hormuz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116525598099921685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99899","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=99899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}