{"id":261501,"date":"2026-01-28T08:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/261501\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:11:09","slug":"former-idf-commander-says-u-s-is-running-the-iran-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/261501\/","title":{"rendered":"Former IDF commander says U.S. is running the Iran strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The game against Iran is not being run by Israel, according to Doron Avital, a former commander of IDF special forces.<\/p>\n<p>He told ILTV that the U.S. is running the show and that \u201cwe have to be in sync with the U.S. in terms of every move that we make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Avital said that Israel should not necessarily plan a preemptive attack, but it does need to be prepared to be attacked or to strike back if Donald Trump decides to act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to remind us of the Gulf War of the early 90s,\u201d Avital said. \u201cWhen Iraq was being attacked, the missiles were shot into Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/facebook-s.png\" class=\"share-image\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/twitter-s.png\" class=\"share-image\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The game against Iran is not being run by Israel, according to Doron Avital, a former commander of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-261501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261501","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=261501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}