{"id":311623,"date":"2025-07-06T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T06:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=311623"},"modified":"2025-07-07T06:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:28:57","slug":"israel-suggests-it-could-strike-iran-again-to-counter-new-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=311623","title":{"rendered":"Israel Suggests It Could Strike Iran Again to Counter New Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Erika Solomon, Ronen Bergman, Adam Rasgon and Johnatan Reiss \u2013 New York Times June 27, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Israel\u2019s defense minister said he would pursue a \u201cpolicy of enforcement\u201d against Iran despite a cease-fire, aiming to prevent Tehran from rebuilding its air power, advancing nuclear projects or developing \u201cthreatening long-range missiles.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comments by the minister, Israel Katz, to local news channels on Thursday evening suggested that Israel was contemplating more strikes on Iran even after President Trump announced a truce between the two countries on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s foreign minister warned on Thursday night that his country would respond<\/a> to anything it considered a breach of the cease-fire.<\/p>\n

Mr. Katz, speaking to Israel\u2019s Channel 12, said the Israeli military was still finalizing what he called an \u201cenforcement policy\u201d with Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the determination to implement it: preserving aerial superiority, preventing the advancement of nuclear projects and preventing the advancement of threatening long-range missiles,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Such a wide-ranging Israeli interpretation of threats from Iran could imperil the truce, which ended a 12-day war that the United States briefly joined when its war planes bombed three Iranian nuclear sites.<\/p>\n

The war did significant damage to Iranian nuclear sites and air defenses, and Iran may seek to rebuild its strategic infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Mr. Katz\u2019s comments may have been directed at his local audience, particularly the hawkish government\u2019s base of supporters. But the remarks could also lay the groundwork for a confrontation with Washington.<\/p>\n

It is unclear whether Mr. Trump would push back against the policy that Mr. Katz outlined. Israel could also choose to wait and see the results of any future diplomacy between Tehran and Washington.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump was outraged when the cease-fire got off to a shaky start, and both sides fired on each other in the early hours after the truce came into effect.<\/p>\n

He directed his strongest criticisms at Israel, even at one point posting messages on social media when he was concerned it might strike Iran again. He warned it would be a \u201cMAJOR VIOLATION\u201d if Israel were to bomb Iran and demanded that the country \u201cBRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW!\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Katz told Channel 12 that Israel does not need U.S. approval to attack Iran in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are saying unequivocally, once the Iranians violate, we will strike.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said Israel\u2019s policy would be similar to what it has done in the aftermath of its war against the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. The United States brokered a truce to end that war as well after Israel killed most of the group\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

Since then, Israel has bombed targets in Lebanon frequently, even though Hezbollah has refrained from attacks on Israeli territory.<\/p>\n

Israel has justified some of those strikes by saying that they were aimed at preventing Hezbollah\u2019s efforts to rearm. Mr. Katz told another network, Channel 13, that Israel\u2019s policy on Iran would be \u201clike in Lebanon \u2014 just times 100.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, warned that \u201cIran is not Lebanon,\u201d in an interview with state television on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not accept any cease-fire or halt in operations that implies an agreed-upon arrangement,\u201d he said, adding that he had \u201cserious doubts\u201d about Israel\u2019s commitment to the deal.<\/p>\n

He pointed to Israel\u2019s frequent airstrikes in Lebanon and Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s decision to break a cease-fire<\/a> with Hamas in March to restart military operations in the Gaza war.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey declare a truce, but assume that the other side is weak, then proceed to violate it themselves and attempt to prevent any response,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Iran still has ballistic missiles and launchers, despite the damage it has sustained from Israeli and U.S. strikes. It could still inflict blows that Israel would likely need to take into account should it choose to strike again.<\/p>\n

Mr. Araghchi vowed that Iran would \u201cdecisively respond to any breach by the Zionist regime.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other comments, Mr. Katz said Israel would have killed Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had an opportunity presented itself during the war. After a city in central Israel was hit following an Iranian missile barrage, Mr. Katz insisted that Mr. Khamenei should not be allowed to live.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Khamenei was in the cross hairs, we would have taken him out,\u201d he told i24NEWS on Thursday.<\/p>\n

In a post on Truth Social on Friday, Mr. Trump said he had been aware of Mr. Khamenei\u2019s location but did not permit Israel or the United States to kill him.<\/p>\n

It unclear exactly what intelligence Israel had on Mr. Khamenei \u2014 and the decision making surrounding the supreme leader.<\/p>\n

One Israeli official with knowledge of the matter said that Israel, as part of its planning for the operation, decided against targeting him on the first day when its forces killed a string of senior military officials and nuclear scientists.<\/p>\n

After the first day, Israel explored the possibility of assassinating Mr. Khamenei, but did not have enough intelligence at that point to carry it out, according to two other Israeli officials.<\/p>\n

The officials all spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence matters.<\/p>\n

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Israel\u2019s defences minister said the country would pursue a \u201cpolicy of enforcement\u201d against Iran despite a cease-fire, aiming to prevent it from rebuilding its defenses. So it\u2019s entirely possible that Israel could again attack the Islamic Republic in the coming weeks. Launching another strike on the pretext of it being \u201cpre-emptive\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":244754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311625,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311623\/revisions\/311625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/244754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}