{"id":327123,"date":"2026-05-18T08:58:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327123"},"modified":"2026-05-20T07:37:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:37:36","slug":"report-us-and-israel-preparing-for-renewed-strikes-on-iran-within-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327123","title":{"rendered":"Report: US and Israel preparing for renewed strikes on Iran within days"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Introduction \u2013 May 17, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The more a bully threatens the less weight his threats carry. Right now this is the problem that Trump faces with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has already proven it can hold its own militarily against the U.S. and Israel. So despite Trump\u2019s repeated threats Tehran remains adamant, it will not yield to Trump\u2019s demands and all Trump can do is make more threats.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s latest AI enhanced graphic threat shows Trump directing a U.S. push toward Iran backed by space-based weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Recent reports from Israel indicate that the U.S. and its Zionist ally are actively preparing for more strikes on Iran with the possibility that the next round of fighting may involve ground operations.<\/p>\n<p>If that happens the U.S. risks taking much higher casualties in a much more emphatic way than the most recent failed U.S. operation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-in\/news\/world\/were-100-prepared-iran-defies-trumps-ultimatum-and-warns-us-it-is-ready-for-war\/ar-AA23qeKR?gemSnapshotKey=GMEF9124BD-snapshot-2&amp;uxmode=ruby&amp;apiversion=v2&amp;domshim=1&amp;noservercache=1&amp;noservertelemetry=1&amp;batchservertelemetry=1&amp;renderwebcomponents=1&amp;wcseo=1\">Iran&#8217;s defiance<\/a> in the face of repeated U.S. threats means that the conflict may be far from over. Ed<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Report: US and Israel preparing for renewed strikes on Iran within days<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>YNet News \u2013 May 16, 2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Officials told The NYT that Trump advisers have drafted plans for renewed strikes on Iran, including heavy bombing and possible ground operations, though military officials warned the latter carries a &#8216;high risk of casualties&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/topics\/Donald_Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> landed in Washington overnight Friday after his visit to China, with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/article\/hkcttenyfx\">escalation in the campaign against Iran still under consideration<\/a>. Two Middle East officials who spoke with The New York Times said the United States and Israel are engaged in \u201cintensive preparations\u201d, the largest since the ceasefire took effect, for a possible resumption of strikes on Iran as early as next week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/article\/skpggysygg\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While President Trump posts more AI enhanced threats Iran remains defiant <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":327125,"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-327123","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\/327123","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=327123"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327129,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327123\/revisions\/327129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/327125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}