{"id":311288,"date":"2026-02-26T13:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/311288\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:06:09","slug":"the-price-of-waiting-for-war-with-iran-u-s-and-israel-ramp-up-spending-as-trump-mulls-an-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/311288\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Waiting for War With Iran: U.S. and Israel Ramp Up Spending as Trump Mulls an Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">It has been almost six weeks since U.S. President Donald Trump promised the demonstrators in Iran: &#8220;Keep protesting, help is on its way.&#8221; During this period the U.S. military has stretched its forces to peak preparedness in the region, and Israel too is in a waiting game, bracing for an Iranian attack in response to an American onslaught. Those six weeks have cost a lot of money \u2013 for Israel too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been almost six weeks since U.S. President Donald Trump promised the demonstrators in Iran: &#8220;Keep protesting,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,42,86,8954,1031,87,99446,9152,21452,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-311288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-hezbollah","11":"tag-houthis","12":"tag-idf","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-iran-u-s","15":"tag-israel-u-s","16":"tag-israel-iran","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topnews","21":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311288","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=311288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}