{"id":84416,"date":"2026-07-14T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84416"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:00:13","slug":"u-s-attacks-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/u-s-attacks-tehran\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Attacks Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. launched strikes on Iran early Tuesday, hours after President Donald Trump vowed to reinstate an American blockade of Iranian ports and charge ships for safe passage through the\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/the-worlds-most-important-21-miles-0000019d2fbfd29daffdefffc72e0000\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a><\/span>. Iran responded with attacks on Middle East allies of the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The actions leave in tatters an\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-war-us-pakistan-ceasefire-what-to-know-949710df39e3f1033cbb6beda3955814\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">interim deal meant to pause the fighting<\/a><\/span>, reopen a waterway that is a crucial passage for the world\u2019s energy supplies, and give negotiators time to hammer out a permanent end to the war. Instead, fighting has once again\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-hormuz-strait-war-july-13-2026-6c2c44cfdd089d6393d18fa5930ed620\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">engulfed the region<\/a><\/span> and threatened the global economy. Unless a diplomatic solution is found quickly, it could intensify into all-out war. <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Iran responded<\/a><\/span>\u00a0with attacks targeting Bahrain, Jordan and three tankers that traveled through the strait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: The U.S. launched strikes on Iran early Tuesday, hours after President Donald Trump vowed to reinstate an American.<\/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-84416","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\/84416","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=84416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84417,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84416\/revisions\/84417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}