{"id":280247,"date":"2026-02-08T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/280247\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:48:09","slug":"us-iran-negotiations-could-leave-israel-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/280247\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran negotiations could leave Israel vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senior defense officials are expressing concern about the ongoing talks between Iran and the United States, amid assessments by Iranian experts that Iran<\/a>‘s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei does not intend to abandon the nation’s nuclear project.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to experts, Khamenei views nuclear developments as critical to the regime’s survival and will, at most, agree to temporarily pause the development process. What is more, it is not known where Iran’s 60% enriched uranium is stored.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Iran does not intend to give up its arsenal of ballistic missiles<\/a>, some of which are aimed at Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thus, defense officials estimate that the entire US-Iran negotiation process is bad for Israel, as it will likely not take Israel’s security concerns into account.<\/p>\n

Currently, there are two options. The first, a “safe haven” agreement, would prevent Israel from attacking Iran.<\/p>\n

The second, an “open” agreement, would allow Israel to attack Iran in order to remove threats and maintain security interests. This is reminiscent of the agreement between the Houthis and the US – it left the threat open-ended but gave the IDF freedom to act.<\/p>\n

The latter option appears to be more advantageous for Israel, accounting for the possibility of a breakdown in US-Iran negotiations leading to US military action in Iran<\/a>. The IDF is prepared for this possibility, among others.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The IDF is also preparing for a variety of scenarios in which talks break down and Iran uses proxies to harm Israel in a way that would require a military response.<\/p>\n

The framework of the negotiations will be revealed in the coming days, at which point it will be possible to understand the extent to which the US military presence in the Middle East realistically deters the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump are expected to meet in Washington<\/a> on Wednesday to discuss the US-Iran nuclear negotiations, the Prime Minister\u2019s Office announced on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe prime minister believes that any negotiations must include limiting ballistic missiles and ending support for the Iranian axis,\u201d the PMO stated.<\/p>\n

Previously, Trump stated that the nuclear talks, which took place on Friday in Muscat, Oman, were \u201cvery good\u201d and that US and Iranian officials are \u201cgoing to meet again early next week,\u201d while speaking with reporters on Air Force One.
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\u201cThey want to make a deal,\u201d Trump said of Iran, adding that, regardless of other terms that may be included in a potential future deal, Iran will be allowed \u201cno nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goldie Katz contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior defense officials are expressing concern about the ongoing talks between Iran and the United States, amid assessments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50433,54,85,87,93,88393,143295,140077,46,43,6026,144052],"class_list":["post-280247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-abbas-araghchi","tag-donald-trump","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-iran-nuclear-deal","tag-iran-nuclear-talks","tag-iran-us-conflict","tag-iran-us-news","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-nuclear","tag-us-israel-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280247","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=280247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}