{"id":224859,"date":"2026-01-11T14:31:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T10:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=224859"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:25:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:25:42","slug":"irans-parliament-speaker-says-israel-and-us-bases-in-middle-east-legitimate-targets-in-case-of-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/224859\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s parliament speaker says Israel and US bases in Middle East legitimate targets in case of attack"},"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>Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has warned that in the event of a U.S. military strike, Tehran would target Israel and American military facilities in the Middle East, <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama\/26120529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TASS<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In the event of a U.S. military attack, both the occupied territories [referring to Israel] and U.S. land and naval bases will become legitimate targets for us,&rdquo; Ghalibaf said, according to Iran&rsquo;s state television.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, U.S. President Donald Trump had expressed his willingness to provide support to individuals involved in the unrest in Iran.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has warned that in the event of a U.S. military strike, Tehran would target Israel and American military facilities in the Middle East, TASS reports. &ldquo;In the event of a U.S. military attack, both the occupied territories [referring to Israel] and U.S. land and naval bases will become legitimate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":224683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,96,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224859","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=224859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224860,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224859\/revisions\/224860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}