{"id":642283,"date":"2026-10-10T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/642283\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T14:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:58:10","slug":"us-pushed-for-lone-israeli-iran-operation-as-midterm-elections-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/642283\/","title":{"rendered":"US pushed for lone Israeli Iran operation as midterm elections loom"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States pressed Israel to carry out a solo strike operation against Iran during discussions between the two countries over the past two weeks, sources told Maariv in a report published on Saturday.<\/p>\n

According to the report, Washington wanted Israel to assume the political risks of a military operation ahead of the US midterm elections, rather than US President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

American officials reportedly believed Israel would be interested in striking Iran<\/a> before its own elections, while a US operation ahead of the midterms could have negative political consequences for Trump.<\/p>\n

However, the latest information suggests that the initial American proposal effectively amounted to Trump directing Israel to strike Iran before the elections.<\/p>\n

The US has since backed down from its demand, at least for now, the sources told Maariv.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s position on the matter remains unclear, the sources added.<\/p>\n

Over the past week, Netanyahu’s schedule was described as “very security-focused<\/a>,” and he held several “sensitive” meetings and visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States pressed Israel to carry out a solo strike operation against Iran during discussions between the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4160,49,54,42,87,46,47,43,40,38,41,39,1032,730],"class_list":["post-642283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-attack","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642283","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=642283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}