{"id":496209,"date":"2026-02-28T20:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496209\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T20:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:17:08","slug":"inside-the-high-stakes-u-s-israel-attack-on-iran-a-breaking-news-podcast-with-haaretz-defense-analyst-amos-harel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496209\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the High-stakes U.S.-Israel Attack on Iran: A Breaking News Podcast With Haaretz Defense Analyst Amos Harel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">In this special edition of the Haaretz Podcast, recorded during the first hours of the dramatic joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, and as Tehran began its retaliatory strikes on Israel and on U.S. targets across the Middle East, Haaretz senior analyst <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" target=\"_router\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/ty-WRITER\/0000017f-da36-d938-a17f-fe3e0cfe0000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amos Harel<\/a> joins host Allison Kaplan Sommer for a real-time update and discussion.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">&#8220;The stakes are much higher than last time,&#8221; Harel said, referring to the 12 day Israel-Iran war in June 2025. For Israelis, &#8220;there is a <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" target=\"_router\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2026-02-28\/ty-article-live\/trump-not-happy-with-iran-nuclear-talks-omani-fm-deal-achievable-tomorrow\/0000019c-a273-d5d1-a1fd-f27743d20000?liveBlogItemId=610352579#610352579\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">certain amount of danger<\/a>,&#8221; although it is impossible to say at this point how hard the country will be hit by Iran and its proxies. For Iranians, &#8220;this is going to get messy and bloody,&#8221; not only because of the military strikes, but also because of growing clashes between government forces and those hoping to throw over the regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this special edition of the Haaretz Podcast, recorded during the first hours of the dramatic joint U.S.-Israeli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226900,180119,4,450,451,13467,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-496209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-2026-israel-iran-war","tag-ali-khamenei","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-idf","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496209","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=496209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}