{"id":481607,"date":"2026-06-08T02:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/481607\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:19:08","slug":"idf-confirms-strikes-targets-in-western-central-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/481607\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF confirms strikes targets in western, central Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The IAF struck military targets in western and central Iran on Monday following an Iranian missile attack on Israel, the IDF confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The strikes come after sources told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that Israeli officials were still deciding when and how hard to hit Iran, noting that a significant Israeli response to Tehran&#8217;s ceasefire breach was expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed that the strikes were carried out using air-launched ballistic missiles, according to Iranian IRNA state media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Iran had threatened to attack Israel following an earlier IDF strike on Beirut, which itself was retaliation for continued Hezbollah ceasefire breaches.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, a United States official told Axios that he did not expect an imminent Israeli retaliation against Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think anything is imminent in terms of an Israeli strike,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">On Sunday, US President Donald Trump asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avoid striking Iran, N12 news reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;Israel has responded enough, no need for more,&#8221; Trump additionally told KAN News.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IAF struck military targets in western and central Iran on Monday following an Iranian missile attack on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12274,1031,85,87,101782,46,43,3336],"class_list":["post-481607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-iaf","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-isfahan","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-tehran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481607","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=481607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}