{"id":70054,"date":"2026-03-26T07:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/attacks-escalate-in-middle-east-as-trump-insists-iran-wants-a-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:55:22","slug":"attacks-escalate-in-middle-east-as-trump-insists-iran-wants-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/attacks-escalate-in-middle-east-as-trump-insists-iran-wants-a-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Attacks Escalate in Middle East as Trump Insists Iran Wants a Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran and Israel exchanged a new wave of strikes on Wednesday as President Donald Trump insisted Iran is desperate for a deal, saying, \u201cThey want to make a deal so badly, but they\u2019re afraid to say it.\u201d It comes as gas prices are continuing to rise worldwide with Iran blocking oil through the Strait of Hormuz. NBC\u2019s Richard Engel reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran and Israel exchanged a new wave of strikes on Wednesday as President Donald Trump insisted Iran is desperate for a deal, saying, \u201cThey want to make a deal so badly, but they\u2019re afraid to say it.\u201d It comes as gas prices are continuing to rise worldwide with Iran blocking oil through the Strait of &#8230; <a title=\"Attacks Escalate in Middle East as Trump Insists Iran Wants a Deal\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/attacks-escalate-in-middle-east-as-trump-insists-iran-wants-a-deal\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Attacks Escalate in Middle East as Trump Insists Iran Wants a Deal\">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-70054","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\/70054","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=70054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}