{"id":22457,"date":"2024-08-12T11:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T11:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=22457"},"modified":"2024-08-12T11:36:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T11:36:02","slug":"israeli-minister-tells-us-that-large-scale-iranian-attack-expected-axios-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/08\/israeli-minister-tells-us-that-large-scale-iranian-attack-expected-axios-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli minister tells US that large-scale Iranian attack expected, Axios reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Sunday that Iran was making preparations for a large-scale military attack on Israel, Axios reporter Barak Ravid said in a post on X, citing a source with knowledge of the call.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, Gallant&#8217;s ministry confirmed the call took place overnight. It said Gallant and Austin discussed operational and strategic coordination and the Israeli military&#8217;s readiness in the face of Iranian threats.<\/p>\n<p>Austin has meanwhile ordered the deployment of a guided missile submarine to the Middle East. The U.S. military had already said it would deploy additional fighter jets and Navy warships to the region to bolster Israeli defences.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, an Iranian Revolutionary Guards deputy commander was quoted as saying by local news agencies that Iran was set to carry out an order by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to &#8220;harshly punish&#8221; Israel over the assassination on July 31 of the Ismail Haniyeh leader of Palestinian militant group Hamas in Tehran.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Sunday that Iran was making preparations for a large-scale military attack on Israel, Axios reporter Barak Ravid said in a post on X, citing a source with knowledge of the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,978,16,194,982,233,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-security","category-report","category-world","category-international","category-iran","category-headline"],"views":36,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22459,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22457\/revisions\/22459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}