{"id":223638,"date":"2026-01-07T14:27:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=223638"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:30:44","slug":"is-the-us-preparing-for-action-against-iran-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/223638\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the US preparing for action against Iran? \u2013 The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>US military aircraft are flying en masse to European bases, with media reports suggesting that Iran could be the target.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.in\/news\/middle-east\/2026\/01\/06\/us-c-17s-gunships-arrive-at-uk-airbases-is-the-us-preparing-for-action-in-iran.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Week<\/a>, the recent large-scale deployment of US military transport planes to European bases has sparked speculation that the flights may be related to potential operations against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that around 10 C-17A transport aircraft have been observed in a short period.<\/p>\n<p>US officials have not provided explanations for the movements, but military analysts and experts believe they could be linked to possible action against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Similar mass flights were last observed during the 12-day war when strikes were carried out on Iranian nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US military aircraft are flying en masse to European bases, with media reports suggesting that Iran could be the target. According to The Week, the recent large-scale deployment of US military transport planes to European bases has sparked speculation that the flights may be related to potential operations against Iran. Reports indicate that around 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":223633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223639,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223638\/revisions\/223639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}