{"id":43659,"date":"2026-04-07T08:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=43659"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:56:05","slug":"iran-war-live-updates-clock-ticks-with-16-hours-until-trump-deadline-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=43659","title":{"rendered":"Iran War Live Updates: Clock Ticks With 16 Hours Until Trump Deadline Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Israel&#8217;s military has said it attacked another Iranian petrochemical site, this time in the southwestern city of Shiraz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the facility was used to produce nitric acid, which Iran uses to make explosives and is key for its ballistic missile programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Israel&#8217;s defense minister, Israel Katz, had said on Sunday the IDF had &#8220;powerfully struck the largest petrochemical facility in Iran,&#8221; identified as a site in the southern city of Asaluyeh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">The previous day, Israel struck a petrochemical site in Mahshahr, part of western Iran close to its border with Iraq.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"Embed_embedWrapper__rftvU  embed-twitter\" style=\"width:100%;margin:0 auto;min-height:400px;position:relative\" aria-label=\"twitter embed placeholder\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/iran-war-updated-trump-deadline-11791307\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s military has said it attacked another Iranian petrochemical site, this time in the southwestern city of Shiraz. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the facility&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43659","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=43659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}