{"id":34853,"date":"2026-07-19T04:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T04:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=34853"},"modified":"2026-07-19T04:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T04:51:10","slug":"xinhua-u-s-forces-launch-new-wave-of-strikes-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=34853","title":{"rendered":"Xinhua: U.S. forces launch new wave of strikes against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. forces on Saturday launched a new round of strikes against Iran at 6 p.m. Eastern Time, the U.S. Central Command said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The strikes are designed to further degrade Iran&#8217;s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces who launched attacks against American service members in Jordan last night,&#8221; according to the command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early on Saturday, the command said that two U.S. service members were killed and one remains missing after a strike on a base in Jordan on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deaths bring the total number of U.S. military personnel killed to 16 since the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran on Feb. 28.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260719\/c162ede8285d44e09503129ad457a225\/c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260719\/c162ede8285d44e09503129ad457a225\/c.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. forces on Saturday launched a new round of strikes against Iran at 6 p.m. Eastern Time, the U.S. Central Command said in a statement. &#8220;The strikes are designed to further degrade Iran&#8217;s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces who launched attacks against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[32037,2076,10392,1990,27554,32038,349,32036],"class_list":["post-34853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-destruction-2","tag-economy-2","tag-instability-2","tag-iran-2","tag-iran-war","tag-strait-of-hormoz","tag-us-2","tag-us-strikes-on-iran","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34854,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34853\/revisions\/34854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}