{"id":87321,"date":"2026-10-11T07:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T11:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87321"},"modified":"2026-10-11T07:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T11:23:27","slug":"saudis-lockdown-after-iran-backed-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/saudis-lockdown-after-iran-backed-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Lockdown After Iran-Backed Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/5205a48\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3651x2373+0+0\/resize\/599x389!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fee%2F02%2F0065f17b8baadb8d26b7e87e60c9%2F7f0e247f73d540a6a2fb3b4edbe4e670\" alt=\"People gather outside a metro station on the road to King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. (AP Photo)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia on Sunday kept its main international airport closed and moved Riyadh schools online as Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels threatened new airstrikes across the kingdom, a day after a missile attack killed 12 people and wounded more than 300.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh marked a major escalation in the war between Yemen\u2019s Iran\u2019s-backed Houthis and the kingdom and further complicated sputtering efforts to halt the U.S.-Iran war. U.S. President Donald Trump said he was considering whether to join Saudi strikes against the rebels, a scenario that could prompt the Houthis to halt shipping through a crucial waterway and further restrict the flow of oil out of the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Saudi Arabia on Sunday kept its main international airport closed and moved Riyadh schools online as Yemen\u2019s Houthi.<\/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":["post-87321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87321","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=87321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87323,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87321\/revisions\/87323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}