{"id":380509,"date":"2026-03-05T09:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=380509"},"modified":"2026-03-05T09:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:59:24","slug":"middle-east-war-is-unpredictable-as-urgent-travel-warning-issued-to-australians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=380509","title":{"rendered":"Middle East war is \u2018unpredictable\u2019 as urgent travel warning issued to Australians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australians are being urged to\u00a0think carefully about their travel plans\u00a0for the next five months \u2014 especially trips to Europe \u2014 as the rapidly escalating conflict in the Middle East begins to spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign Minister Penny Wong warned the situation was evolving far more quickly than many governments anticipated, with Iran now having launched attacks across 11 countries, including a NATO member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCertainly the conflict is spreading, and that\u2019s of deep concern,\u201d Senator Wong told Sunrise on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIran attacking a NATO member, which now means it has sought to strike 11 countries, is deeply concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018No one would have anticipated that in the first 72 hours Iran would have struck nine countries.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":334967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35,790],"tags":[19754,11340],"class_list":["post-380509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","category-iran","tag-iran-conflict","tag-penny-wong"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380510,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380509\/revisions\/380510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/334967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}