{"id":56022,"date":"2026-03-18T18:27:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=56022"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:27:14","slug":"iran-launches-deadly-missile-attacks-on-israel-gulf-states-as-war-spirals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=56022","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Iran launches deadly missile attacks on Israel, Gulf states as war spirals<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56023\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-18-at-1.47.21-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-18-at-1.47.21-PM.png 559w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-18-at-1.47.21-PM-300x232.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>What to know as the Iran war escalates:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Iran launched waves of missiles and drones at Israel and Gulf states Wednesday, lashing out as Israel said it killed another top official \u2013 Iran&#8217;s intelligence minister \u2013 after killing top security chief\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ali-larijani-iran-top-security-official-killed-war-strikes-israel\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ali Larijani<\/a><\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>Despite U.S. and Israeli strikes against senior Iranian leaders, the U.S. director of national intelligence\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/tulsi-gabbard-kash-patel-senate-intelligence-committee-hearing\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">said at a Senate hearing<\/a><\/span>\u00a0the regime &#8220;appears to be intact,&#8221; although &#8220;largely degraded.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/iran-war-us-israel-persian-gulf-strait-of-hormuz-trump-netanyahu\/\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/iran-war-us-israel-persian-gulf-strait-of-hormuz-trump-netanyahu\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}