{"id":533274,"date":"2026-07-09T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/533274\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:42:09","slug":"israeli-officials-dont-expect-idf-to-join-current-round-of-fighting-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/533274\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli officials don’t expect IDF to join current round of fighting in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

The current round of fighting between the United States and Iran<\/a> is not expected to spill over to Israel,\u00a0The Jerusalem Post learned on Thursday.<\/p>\n

IDF officials do not expect Israel to be drawn into the US-Iran exchanges at this time, though they said that the military is ready for any eventuality.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the officials said that the current assumption is that Iran doesn’t plan to drag Israel into the conflict, with no expected Iranian strikes in the near future.<\/p>\n

This might change in case the US tells Israel that it needs the IDF<\/a> to join in striking Iran, sources told the Post.<\/p>\n

\"AA screengrab taken from a handout video released by the Israeli Military says to show a strike on an aerial defence system in Iran at an unknown location, video released on June 8, 2026. (credit: Israeli Military\/Handout via REUTERS)Iranian missiles trigger sirens in Jordan, 150km away from Israeli border<\/p>\n

One of the latest Iranian attacks triggered sirens in Jordan<\/a>, with Jordanian authorities saying that ten missiles were intercepted over its territory.<\/p>\n

According to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the attack targeted the Azraq Air Base of the US Air Force, which is located some 150 kilometers away from the Israeli border.<\/p>\n

Iranian strikes also targeted US assets in several Gulf states, with sirens sounding in Bahrain and Kuwait, among other areas targeted by the Islamic regime.<\/p>\n

Iran’s air force is flying fighter jets to “secure the skies over the funeral procession” of the former supreme leader Ali Khamenei in Mashhad, the regime-affiliated Fars news agency said.<\/p>\n

US strikes key targets in Iran<\/p>\n

The US struck several sites in Iran, with one of the main targets reportedly being a railway bridge connecting Tehran and Mashhad<\/a>, state broadcaster Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing the criminal US attack early this morning on a section of the Tehran-Mashhad railway, passenger train services have been disrupted,” IRIB posted on X\/Twitter on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Passengers stranded due to the disruption reportedly began chanting, “Iranians do not accept humiliation, even at the cost of their own lives.”<\/p>\n

A Russian-built nuclear power plant was also reportedly hit in US strikes on Iran’s Bushehr province early Thursday morning, according to Iranian state media.<\/p>\n

The deputy governor of Bushehr Province said that a US projectile hit the perimeter area of the facility, which had already been hit several times during the current conflict prior to the April 8 ceasefire.<\/p>\n

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on X\/Twitter that it had struck approximately 90 sites throughout southern Iran to “further degrade Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping and innocent civil mariners in the Strait of Hormuz.”<\/p>\n

Shoshana Baker contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The current round of fighting between the United States and Iran is not expected to spill over to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1031,85,46,15005,241960,43,76279,144052],"class_list":["post-533274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-iran-war","tag-israel-iran-war-scenario","tag-news","tag-us-iran","tag-us-israel-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533274","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=533274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}