{"id":16819,"date":"2026-03-03T04:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16819"},"modified":"2026-03-03T04:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:42:11","slug":"us-israeli-strikes-on-iran-could-last-weeks-48-iranian-leaders-and-3-us-soldiers-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16819","title":{"rendered":"US-Israeli strikes on Iran could last &#8216;weeks&#8217;, 48 Iranian leaders and 3 US soldiers killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>What you need to know<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Residents in Gulf states have awoken to the sound of fresh explosions, after a night of attacks across the region that saw Iran-backed Hezbollah enter the widening conflict.<\/li>\n<li>Donald Trump says the US-Israeli conflict with Iran could last four weeks.<\/li>\n<li>He claims the strikes have destroyed a substantial part of Iran&#8217;s navy.<\/li>\n<li>Dozens of top Iranian leaders have been killed, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/588292\/how-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-became-iran-s-supreme-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A total of 555 people have been killed across Iran in US and Israeli strikes, the Iranian Red Crescent says.<\/li>\n<li>Three US service members have been killed and five seriously wounded.<\/li>\n<li>The New Zealand share market trimmed its losses after steep falls earlier in the day.<\/li>\n<li>Major Middle Eastern airports were shut and regional gateways including<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/588306\/dubai-airport-iconic-burj-al-arab-hotel-damaged-in-iranian-missile-strikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Dubai<\/a>, Doha and Abu Dhabi were closed.<\/li>\n<li>MFAT advice to New Zealanders is to shelter in place and leave when it is safe and possible to do so.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you need to know Residents in Gulf states have awoken to the sound of fresh explosions, after a night of attacks across the region that saw Iran-backed Hezbollah enter the widening conflict. Donald Trump says the US-Israeli conflict with Iran could last four weeks. He claims the strikes have destroyed a substantial part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16820,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16819\/revisions\/16820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}