{"id":89834,"date":"2026-05-26T14:43:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/new-strikes-on-iran-were-self-defence-say-us-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:43:43","slug":"new-strikes-on-iran-were-self-defence-say-us-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/new-strikes-on-iran-were-self-defence-say-us-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"New strikes on Iran were &#8216;self-defence&#8217;, say US | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US said it launched new strikes on southern Iran on Monday, targeting Iranian missile sites and boats attempting to <!--more--> place mines.<\/p>\n<p>The strikes were in &#8220;self-defence&#8221; and designed &#8220;to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces&#8221;, US Central Command said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Tuesday it had downed a US drone and fired at a fighter jet and another drone that entered Iranian airspace, state media reported &#8211; it did not specify when this happened.<\/p>\n<p>It added that Iran had the &#8220;legitimate and definite&#8221; right to retaliate against any US ceasefire violations.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Iran #US #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US said it launched new strikes on southern Iran on Monday, targeting Iranian missile sites and boats attempting to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}