{"id":321894,"date":"2026-11-03T08:59:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=321894"},"modified":"2026-11-03T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:15:05","slug":"u-s-strikes-irans-qusum-island-ahead-of-mid-term-elections-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/u-s-strikes-irans-qusum-island-ahead-of-mid-term-elections-2\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. strikes Iran&#8217;s Qusum island ahead of mid-term elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The United States has attacked Iran&#8217;s Qusum Island in the Strait of Hormuz. Fox News and The Wall Street Journal have confirmed the target. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he is in no hurry to intensify attacks on Iran. Speaking to the news agency Axios, Trump said, &#8220;We will take action in some way. But there is no hurry right now. We have completely weakened them economically.&#8221; \u2019<\/p>\n<p>According to Trump, Iran has neither money nor petrol. He claimed that the Iranian people are also fed up with the current situation. <\/p>\n<p>At an event in Washington DC on Monday, Trump was asked if he would resume attacks on Iran after the US midterm elections. He gave a clear &#8220;no&#8221; answer. <\/p>\n<p>According to Axios reporter Barak Ravid, a US official told him that Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired a missile from the island of Qusum targeting a US plane in Hormuz on Monday night. <\/p>\n<p>In response to the attack, U.S. fighter jets destroyed the launcher of Iran&#8217;s surface-to-air missile system in self-defense, the official said. \u2014 Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The United States has attacked Iran&#8217;s Qusum Island in the Strait of Hormuz. Fox News and The Wall Street Journal have confirmed the target. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he is in no hurry to intensify attacks on Iran. Speaking to the news agency Axios, Trump said, &#8220;We will take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":321892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45044,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321895,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321894\/revisions\/321895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/321892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}