{"id":80924,"date":"2026-02-28T08:45:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=80924"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:45:36","slug":"explosions-heard-across-the-middle-east-as-iran-retaliates-against-u-s-attacks-flights-disrupted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/explosions-heard-across-the-middle-east-as-iran-retaliates-against-u-s-attacks-flights-disrupted\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosions Heard Across The Middle East As Iran Retaliates Against U.S. Attacks; Flights Disrupted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>CNBC<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Explosions were heard across the Middle East on Saturday after the U.S. and Israel launched a \u201cbroad &amp; joint operation\u201d in Iran, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/idf\/status\/2027673076121375077?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel Defense Forces<\/a>. Iran retaliated with strikes on Israeli and U.S. bases across the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates all confirmed they had intercepted missiles from Iran, each home to a U.S. base.\u00a0 In the UAE, \u201cthe Ministry of Defense\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/modgovae\/status\/2027685238093279612?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a>\u00a0that the country was subjected today to a blatant attack by Iranian ballistic missiles, which was dealt with by the UAE air defenses with high efficiency and a number of missiles were successfully intercepted.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1772268336\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Explosions Heard Across The Middle East As Iran Retaliates Against U.S. Attacks; Flights Disrupted\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNBC: Explosions were heard across the Middle East on Saturday after the U.S. and Israel launched a \u201cbroad &amp;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}