{"id":572257,"date":"2026-08-02T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/572257\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:07:08","slug":"israeli-forces-meant-to-participate-in-us-strikes-on-iran-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/572257\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli forces meant to participate in US strikes on Iran, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel was meant to be involved in a major attack on Iran, United States officials told N12 News on Sunday, before US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/american-politics\/article-904360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> decided to call it off after persuasion by Qatar and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to one official, Israel told the United States that if the attack did not strike Iranian regime targets and sites tied to Iran&#8217;s economy, there was no point in striking at all.<\/p>\n<p>The officials also told N12 that Trump had been closer than ever before to striking before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-904283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">other Middle East nations<\/a> pressured him to grant Iran another opportunity to negotiate.<\/p>\n<p>In a Truth Social post on Saturday night, Trump<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-904286\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> called for an immediate deal<\/a> with Iran, claiming to have called off a massive attack against the country and to have Israel&#8217;s support in his commitment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;The USA is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran, at levels of Military Terror, Strength, and Power not seen since World War II,&#8221; Trump claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Trump announced that the deal would have to include the complete opening of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/strait-of-hormuz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>\u00a0and an end to Iran&#8217;s nuclear threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel was meant to be involved in a major attack on Iran, United States officials told N12 News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,85,87,46,47,43,1823,78,1032,2201],"class_list":["post-572257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-donald-trump","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-qatar","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572257","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=572257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}