{"id":68049,"date":"2026-03-04T09:57:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/inside-the-scramble-to-get-americans-out-of-middle-east\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:57:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:57:29","slug":"inside-the-scramble-to-get-americans-out-of-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/inside-the-scramble-to-get-americans-out-of-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Scramble to Get Americans Out of Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Iran zeroes in on United States interests across the Middle East, stranded Americans are trying to flee but face a lack of flights with multiple countries closing their air space. A government hotline tells callers to \u201cnot rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time.\u201d NBC\u2019s Keir Simmons reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Iran zeroes in on United States interests across the Middle East, stranded Americans are trying to flee but face a lack of flights with multiple countries closing their air space. A government hotline tells callers to \u201cnot rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time.\u201d NBC\u2019s Keir Simmons reports &#8230; <a title=\"Inside the Scramble to Get Americans Out of Middle East\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/inside-the-scramble-to-get-americans-out-of-middle-east\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Inside the Scramble to Get Americans Out of Middle East\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}