{"id":69293,"date":"2026-03-18T07:59:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/first-thing-trump-says-us-does-not-need-nato-after-strait-of-hormuz-rebuf-clea-skopeliti\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T07:59:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:59:54","slug":"first-thing-trump-says-us-does-not-need-nato-after-strait-of-hormuz-rebuf-clea-skopeliti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/first-thing-trump-says-us-does-not-need-nato-after-strait-of-hormuz-rebuf-clea-skopeliti\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: Trump says US does not need Nato after strait of Hormuz rebuf | Clea Skopeliti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snub comes as Iran vows revenge for killing of Ali Larijani. Plus, judge orders reinstatement of Voice of America staff<\/p>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has said the US does not need Nato after a number of the organization\u2019s members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/17\/trump-us-president-nato-strait-of-hormuz-iran-middle-east\">rejected his call to send their warships<\/a> to reopen the strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many people have been displaced in Iran?<\/strong> Up to 3.2 million people, according to the UN\u2019s refugee agency. Here, Tehran residents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/18\/iranians-daily-life-under-air-attack\">speak about their daily life<\/a> under bombardment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the latest updates,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/18\/iran-war-live-updates-oil-prices-hormuz-trump-larijani-key-leader-killed-israel-strikes\">follow our liveblog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/18\/first-thing-trump-us-nato-strait-of-hormuz-rebuf\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snub comes as Iran vows revenge for killing of Ali Larijani. Plus, judge orders reinstatement of Voice of America staff Good morning. Donald Trump has said the US does not need Nato after a number of the organization\u2019s members rejected his call to send their warships to reopen the strait of Hormuz. How many people &#8230; <a title=\"First Thing: Trump says US does not need Nato after strait of Hormuz rebuf | Clea Skopeliti\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/first-thing-trump-says-us-does-not-need-nato-after-strait-of-hormuz-rebuf-clea-skopeliti\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Thing: Trump says US does not need Nato after strait of Hormuz rebuf | Clea Skopeliti\">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-69293","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\/69293","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=69293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}