{"id":43543,"date":"2026-04-07T06:06:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=43543"},"modified":"2026-04-07T06:06:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:06:03","slug":"king-fahd-bridge-linking-saudi-arabia-to-bahrain-closed-over-iranian-threats-as-trumps-deadline-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=43543","title":{"rendered":"King Fahd bridge linking Saudi Arabia to Bahrain closed over Iranian threats as Trump&#8217;s deadline nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The King Fahd Causeway, a key bridge linking Saudi Arabia to the island kingdom of Bahrain, closed early Tuesday over threats from Iranian attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The King Fahd Causeway Authority made the announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KFCAofficial\/status\/2041324924414083099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The King Fahd Causeway is a key bridge linking Saudi Arabia to the island kingdom of Bahrain. <span class=\"credit\">ullstein bild via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It said vehicle movements had been \u201csuspended as a precautionary measure\u201d over Iranian attacks targeting Saudi Arabia\u2019s Eastern Province.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The 15.5-mile bridge is the only connection by road for Bahrain, home to the US Navy\u2019s 5th Fleet, to the Arabian Peninsula.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The bridge was closed early Tuesday over threats from Iranian attacks. <span class=\"credit\">ullstein bild via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption> Trump\u00a0has issued an ultimatum for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and threatened to bomb Iranian power plants and bridges. <span class=\"credit\">Anadolu via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>US\u00a0President Donald Trump\u00a0has <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/05\/us-news\/trump-gives-iran-tuesday-evening-deadline-to-open-strait-of-hormuz-after-warning-of-strikes-in-fiery-post\/\">issued an ultimatum for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> and threatened to bomb Iranian power plants and bridges if it doesn\u2019t by Tuesday 8 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/07\/world-news\/king-fahd-bridge-linking-saudi-arabia-to-bahrain-closed-over-iranian-threats-as-trumps-deadline-nears\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The King Fahd Causeway, a key bridge linking Saudi Arabia to the island kingdom of Bahrain, closed early Tuesday over threats from Iranian attacks. The King&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}