The U.S. military carried out strikes against targets on Iran's Qeshm Island, with officials describing the action as defensive and limited in scope. No immediate plans to broaden the operation were announced.<\/p>\n
The strikes occurred on the eve of the midterm elections, adding a sharp military dimension to an already high-stakes political moment.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong> The New York Times \u2014 U.S. Military Strikes Iran\u2019s Qeshm Island in What U.S. Officials Call a Defensive Measure<\/a>. Also reported by CBS News<\/a>, MS NOW<\/a>, NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source's. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The U.S. military carried out strikes against targets on Iran's Qeshm Island, with officials describing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[87,90,59,89,88],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-midterm-elections","tag-military-strikes","tag-u-s-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}