{"id":660229,"date":"2026-10-29T03:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T03:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/660229\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T03:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T03:28:10","slug":"iran-separatists-step-up-attacks-anticipating-full-scale-us-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/660229\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran separatists step up attacks, anticipating full-scale US assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/politics\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">A long war could let militants seize territory in remote province, analysts say<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20261028 Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A border watchtower in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran, is pictured in\u00a02021. A deteriorated security situation in the southeastern province could negatively affect an already destabilized\u00a0corner of Pakistan. (West Asia News Agency\u00a0via Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>ADNAN AAMIR<\/p>\n<p>October 29, 2026 10:48 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">ISLAMABAD &#8212; The war with the U.S. and Israel has emboldened Iranian militants who are weakening Tehran&#8217;s control in a remote southeastern province, with insurgents seizing territory near the Pakistan border, some analysts say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Politics A long war could let militants seize territory in remote province, analysts say A border watchtower in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[297063,23318,3248,297064,42,87,43,297062,104981,40,38,41,39,208],"class_list":["post-660229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-anticipating","tag-assault","tag-attacks","tag-full-scale","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-news","tag-separatists","tag-step","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660229","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=660229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}