{"id":69939,"date":"2026-03-25T07:55:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/first-thing-us-reportedly-poised-to-send-airborne-troops-to-middle-east\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T07:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:55:54","slug":"first-thing-us-reportedly-poised-to-send-airborne-troops-to-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/first-thing-us-reportedly-poised-to-send-airborne-troops-to-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: US reportedly poised to send airborne troops to Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has targeted Israel and Gulf states while denying Trump\u2019s claims that any negotiations are taking place. Plus, Democrats flip seat in district that includes Mar-a-Lago<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2018\/sep\/17\/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed\"><strong>Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>The US appeared poised to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/24\/middle-east-violence-trump-claims-very-good-talks-iran\">deploy airborne troops to the Middle East<\/a>, according to reports, as strikes intensified across the region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the 15-point framework?<\/strong> Diplomats with knowledge of the talks believe it is likely to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/24\/trumps-rehashed-15-point-iran-plan-unlikely-to-appease-tehran\">rehashed version of a proposal put forward<\/a> by Trump\u2019s negotiating team during nuclear talks in May 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is happening with the strait of Hormuz?<\/strong> Iran has announced it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/25\/stocks-rise-oil-dips-iran-peace-plan-market-optimism\">permitting \u201cnon-hostile\u201d ships<\/a> to pass safely through the strait.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a developing story. <\/strong>Follow our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/25\/middle-east-crisis-live-iran-war-oil-prices-more-us-troops-reportedly-deployed-donald-trump-attacks-on-lebanon\">liveblog for the latest updates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/25\/first-thing-us-reportedly-poised-to-send-airborne-troops-to-middle-east\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has targeted Israel and Gulf states while denying Trump\u2019s claims that any negotiations are taking place. Plus, Democrats flip seat in district that includes Mar-a-Lago Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. The US appeared poised to deploy airborne troops to the Middle East, according to reports, as &#8230; <a title=\"First Thing: US reportedly poised to send airborne troops to Middle East\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/first-thing-us-reportedly-poised-to-send-airborne-troops-to-middle-east\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Thing: US reportedly poised to send airborne troops to 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-69939","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\/69939","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=69939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}