{"id":239858,"date":"2026-03-03T11:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=239858"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:03:33","slug":"war-against-iran-wont-last-years-netanyahu-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/239858\/","title":{"rendered":"War against Iran won\u2019t last years, Netanyahu says"},"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>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected the war against Iran was &ldquo;not going to take years&rdquo;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/netanyahu-says-us-israel-war-iran-not-going-take-years-2026-03-03\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump initially projected the &#8203;war to last four to five weeks, but has since sought to justify a broad, open-ended war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu rejected the idea of the conflict lasting years, like previous wars in the region.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I said it could be quick &zwnj;and decisive. It may take some time, but it&rsquo;s not going to take years. It&rsquo;s not an endless war,&rdquo; Netanyahu told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Today marks the fourth day of the war. US-Israeli strikes against Iran began on Saturday. During one of the attacks, Iran&rsquo;s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed, and Iran&rsquo;s response to the United States and Israel drew the Persian Gulf region into the conflict.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected the war against Iran was &ldquo;not going to take years&rdquo;, Reuters writes. US President Donald Trump initially projected the &#8203;war to last four to five weeks, but has since sought to justify a broad, open-ended war on Iran. Netanyahu rejected the idea of the conflict lasting years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":239807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,96,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239858","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=239858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239860,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239858\/revisions\/239860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}