Washington, DC (NBC News) — Israel has launched what it called a preemptive strike against Iran<\/p>\n
\u201cThe State of Israel has launched a preemptive strike against Iran to remove threats against the State of Israel,\u201d a spokesperson for Israel\u2019s defense minister said.<\/p>\n
Retaliation is expected, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a result, a missile and UAV attack against the State of Israel and its civilian population is expected in the immediate time frame,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
What to know:<\/p>\n
The U.S. built up a massive military presence in the Middle East while holding talks with the Islamic Republic over a new deal to curtail its nuclear program.<\/p>\n
The United States and Israel have launched strikes against Iran, according to a U.S. official.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s semi-official FARS news agency reported that explosions had been heard across Tehran.<\/p>\n
After starting what Israel called a “preemptive strike,” an Israeli spokesperson said retaliation was expected and Israel has declared a state of emergency.<\/p>\n
Iran has vowed that if attacked it would retaliate against American and Israeli bases in the region, warning of a \u201cdevastating war.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington, DC (NBC News) — Israel has launched what it called a preemptive strike against Iran \u201cThe State…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-495278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}