{"id":2696852,"date":"2026-11-03T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T15:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-war-day-249-u-s-strikes-irans-qeshm-island\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T10:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T15:24:47","slug":"iran-war-day-249-u-s-strikes-irans-qeshm-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-war-day-249-u-s-strikes-irans-qeshm-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran War Day 249: U.S. Strikes Iran\u2019s Qeshm Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firan-war-day-249-u-s-strikes-irans-qeshm-island%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2696852&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh U.S.carried out strikes on Iran\u2019s Qeshm Island on Monday after reports said Iran downed an American drone and unsuccessfully aimed at two U.S. fighter jets. U.S. officials described the action as a limited strike against Iranian missile launchers rather than a wider return to major combat; an unnamed defense official told NBC News it was a defensive response to Iranians using surface-to-air missiles against U.S. assets. President Trump had earlier said he would not order strikes on Iran before the U.S. midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning,President Trump said the United States would stop direct aid to israel by the end of the year.In a Fox News interview he claimed he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to end the roughly $4 billion annual payment; how that would work is unclear, especially since Congress controls appropriations for foreign assistance.<\/p>\n<p>In markets, Brent crude opened Monday at $104.45 per barrel, a slight decline from the prior close. AAA reports the U.S.average price for regular gasoline is $4.15 per gallon and for diesel $6.29 per gallon.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-blog-post__content s-wysiwyg s-wysiwyg--blog\">\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:30px;\" id=\"elevenlabs-audionative-widget\" data-height=\"90\" data-width=\"100%\" data-frameborder=\"no\" data-scrolling=\"no\" data-publicuserid=\"cb0d9922301244fcc1aeafd0610a8e90a36a320754121ee126557a7416405662\" data-playerurl=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\/player\/index.html\" >Loading the <a href=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\/text-to-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elevenlabs Text to Speech<\/a> AudioNative Player&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\/player\/audioNativeHelper.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. military conducted strikes Monday on Iran\u2019s Qeshm Island, after Iran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/11\/02\/us\/politics\/us-military-strikes-iran-qeshm-island.html\">reportedly<\/a> shot down an American drone and unsuccessfully targeted two American fighter jets. U.S. officials framed the move as a limited response targeting Iranian missile launchers, not a return to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/without-a-negotiated-settlement-history-shows-russia-ukraine-war-will-be-a-long-brutal-slog\/\" title=\"Without A Negotiated Settlement, History Shows Russia-Ukraine War Will Be A Long, Brutal Slog\">major combat operations<\/a>. \u201cThis was a defensive measure for Iranians using surface-to-air missiles against U.S. assets,\u201d one unnamed defense official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/iran\/us-conducted-defensive-strikes-iranian-targets-strait-hormuz-us-offici-rcna607161\">told<\/a> NBC News. President Trump had previously pledged not to strike Iran before the U.S. midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday morning, President Trump announced that the United States would halt direct aid to Israel by the end of the year. \u201cNow, as far as paying Israel, Bibi Netanyahu and I have made a deal that we give Israel $4 billion \u2060a year, and \u2060we made a deal months ago that we\u2019re stopping,\u201d\u00a0 Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-says-israel-stop-receiving-4b-us-aid-years-end-can-still-buy-weapons\">said<\/a> in an interview with Fox News. The specifics of this remain unclear, particularly given Congress\u2019 role in appropriating funds for assistance to Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brent opened at $104.45 Monday, down slightly from its previous close. AAA <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\">reports<\/a> the average price of regular gasoline in the United States is $4.15 per gallon, and the average price of diesel is $6.29 per gallon.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US strikes Qeshm after drone down; limited, not war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4475,"featured_media":2696853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/tac.imgix.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/GettyImages-2259655611.jpg?auto=compress&#038;crop=faces%2Centropy&#038;fit=crop&#038;fm=jpg&#038;h=630&#038;ixlib=php-3.3.1&#038;q=80&#038;w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[75205,87446,57696],"class_list":["post-2696852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-iran-war-2","tag-qeshm-island","tag-us-strikes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/tac.imgix.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/GettyImages-2259655611.jpg?auto=compress&#038;crop=faces%2Centropy&#038;fit=crop&#038;fm=jpg&#038;h=630&#038;ixlib=php-3.3.1&#038;q=80&#038;w=1200","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696856,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696852\/revisions\/2696856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2696853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}