{"id":55329,"date":"2026-03-11T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=55329"},"modified":"2026-03-11T05:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:00:21","slug":"combatants-in-mideast-war-trade-more-air-strikes-as-iran-clamps-down-on-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=55329","title":{"rendered":"Combatants in Mideast war trade more air strikes as Iran clamps down on dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DUBAI\/TEL AVIV\/WASHINGTON, March 11  &#8211; The U.S. and Israel traded air strikes with Iran&#8217;s military across the Middle East as the besieged Tehran government warned its state security forces were \u200bready with &#8220;fingers on the trigger&#8221; to confront any revival of anti-government protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following an exchange of some of the heaviest bombardments in the region yet on Tuesday, the combatants renewed their attacks \u200con opposing targets in Israel, Lebanon and the Gulf early on Wednesday as the war stretched into its 12th day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conflict has effectively blocked vital shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz, halting the flow of one-fifth of the world&#8217;s fossil energy supplies from the petroleum-rich Gulf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But after a major surge in crude oil prices on Monday,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/global-markets-pix-2026-03-11\/\">global energy prices have tumbled and stock markets rebounded<\/a>&nbsp;as investors bet that U.S. President Donald Trump would seek to end the war soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adding to market optimism, the International Energy Agency has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/iea-proposes-largest-ever-oil-release-strategic-reserves-wsj-reports-2026-03-11\/\">proposed \u200bthe largest release<\/a>&nbsp;of oil reserves in its history to further stabilize crude prices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing officials familiar with the matter. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) DUBAI\/TEL AVIV\/WASHINGTON, March 11 &#8211; The U.S. and Israel traded air strikes with Iran&#8217;s military across the Middle East as the besieged Tehran government warned its state security forces were \u200bready with &#8220;fingers on the trigger&#8221; to confront any revival of anti-government protests. Following an exchange of some of the heaviest bombardments in the region yet on Tuesday, the combatants renewed their attacks \u200con opposing targets in Israel, Lebanon and the Gulf early on Wednesday as the war stretched into its 12th day. The conflict has effectively blocked vital shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz, halting the flow&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55331,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55329\/revisions\/55331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}