{"id":297994,"date":"2026-02-18T21:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/297994\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:06:09","slug":"israel-braces-for-possible-strikes-on-iran-despite-ongoing-nuclear-talks-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/297994\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel braces for possible strikes on Iran despite ongoing nuclear talks: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered Home Front Command to prepare for war with Iran, declaring a state of \u201cmaximum alert,&#8221; Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper has reported.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">CNN Arabic on Wednesday also reported, citing two unnamed Israeli sources, that Israel put its forces on heightened alert and stepped up military preparations as \u201cindications grow\u201d that a coordinated strike with the US on Iran may be imminent. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Tel Aviv has grown increasingly doubtful of the US-Iran negotiation process over recent weeks and is pushing ahead with both offensive and defensive planning, one of the sources, a military official, said.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Netanyahu has convened multiple closed-door security sessions this week to evaluate the country&#8217;s preparedness and coordination with its allies, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Should US President Donald Trump give the green light, any strike is expected to dwarf last June&#8217;s attacks during the 12-day war and involve a coordinated offensive by both Washington and Tel Aviv, according to one source.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Axios, citing sources familiar with the matter, reported earlier that a potential US-Israeli military assault against Iran could be a massive, weeks-long offensive.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">As Israel is preparing for immediate action, American sources told Axios the US military may need more preparation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered Home Front Command to prepare for war with Iran, declaring a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-297994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297994","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=297994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}