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Shafaq News\u2013 Middle East<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s army stepped up preparations\u00a0for a potential
\nconfrontation with Iran, amid assessments that unrest inside Tehran could push
\nthe country toward escalation, Israeli media reported on Friday.<\/p>\n
Israeli security assessments indicate that Iran is
\naccelerating efforts to rebuild its ballistic missile arsenal while testing
\nnewly developed missiles and launch platforms. Authorities do not rule out an
\nIranian strike with ballistic missiles or drones, aimed more at diverting
\nattention from domestic unrest than achieving a decisive military outcome.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Mossad Director David Barnea warned that \u201cIran\u2019s
\nnuclear ambitions\u201d remain unresolved despite damage to the program, stressing
\nthat the threat has not been eliminated during the Iran-Israel 12 days war.<\/p>\n
Read more: Iran’s Nuclear Gambit: Cooperation halted, global alarms sound<\/a><\/p>\n Earlier today, Iran\u2019s parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher
\nGhalibaf cautioned<\/a> that US forces in the Middle East would be considered
\n\u201clegitimate targets\u201d if Washington attacked Iran, while accusing foreign
\nintelligence services of attempting\u2014and failing\u2014to exploit protests<\/a> by pushing
\nthem toward armed confrontation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-01-02T21:20:06+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News\u2013 Middle East Israel\u2019s army stepped up preparations\u00a0for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,87,46,120212,77950,43,66012,9815],"class_list":["post-217278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israel-prepares-forces-for-escalation-with-iran","tag-military-tension","tag-news","tag-preparation","tag-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}