{"id":322897,"date":"2026-02-10T08:04:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=322897"},"modified":"2026-02-12T06:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:33:05","slug":"israel-to-strike-iran-alone-if-necessary-officials-told-us-jpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=322897","title":{"rendered":"Israel to strike Iran alone if necessary, officials told US &#8211; JPost"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Iran International \u2013 Feb 8, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Israeli defense officials have told their US counterparts in recent weeks that Iran\u2019s ballistic missile program poses an existential threat to Israel and that the country is prepared to act unilaterally if necessary, Jerusalem Post cited security sources as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe told the Americans we will strike alone if Iran crosses the red line we set on ballistic missiles,\u201d one source said, adding that Israel believes Iran has not yet reached that threshold but that Israeli officials are closely tracking developments inside Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The sources said Israel has conveyed plans to dismantle Iran\u2019s missile capabilities and parts of its production infrastructure through a series of high-level exchanges with US officials.<\/p>\n<p>One defense official said the current moment offered a \u201chistoric opportunity\u201d to inflict a major setback on Iran\u2019s missile infrastructure and blunt threats to Israel and neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>Several officials said they were concerned US President Donald Trump could opt for a limited strike approach \u2014 akin to recent US operations against the Houthis in Yemen \u2014 that they fear would leave Iran\u2019s most critical capabilities intact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe worry is he might hit a handful of targets, declare victory, and leave Israel to deal with the consequences, like with the Houthis,\u201d a military official said, adding that partial action would not remove the underlying threat<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202602084487\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This threat is another way Netanyahu can pressure Trump into striking Iran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":82252,"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-322897","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\/322897","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=322897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322898,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322897\/revisions\/322898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}