{"id":983,"date":"2026-05-14T14:45:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:45:02","slug":"why-did-saudi-arabia-and-the-uae-allegedly-carry-out-secret-bombing-raids-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"Why did Saudi Arabia and the UAE allegedly carry out secret bombing raids on Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in April secretly carried out a series of air strikes against Iran during the US-Israeli war against Tehran, the Wall Street Journal and Reuters reported this week. Analysts say these raids \u2013 which neither country has confirmed \u2013 would have been clandestine counterattacks following Tehran\u2019s drone and missile strikes against Gulf state infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in April secretly carried out a series of air strikes against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}