{"id":263128,"date":"2026-05-14T19:26:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=263128"},"modified":"2026-05-15T16:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:16:26","slug":"israels-defense-minister-says-country-ready-for-possible-resumption-of-military-action-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/263128\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s defense minister says country ready for possible resumption of military action against Iran"},"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>Israel&rsquo;s Defense Minister Israel Katz has said, if necessary, Israel is ready for the possible resumption of military operations against Iran to neutralize remaining threats, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20260514\/izrail-2092503227.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RIA Novosti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a memorial ceremony for fallen soldiers, Katz insisted that &ldquo;the mission is not yet complete&rdquo; and stressed the need to ensure that Iran no longer poses a threat to Israel, US forces, or the wider &ldquo;free world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As I have already said, we are prepared for a scenario in which we may soon be forced to act again in order to achieve these goals,&rdquo; the minister added.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&rsquo;s Defense Minister Israel Katz has said, if necessary, Israel is ready for the possible resumption of military operations against Iran to neutralize remaining threats, according to RIA Novosti. Speaking at a memorial ceremony for fallen soldiers, Katz insisted that &ldquo;the mission is not yet complete&rdquo; and stressed the need to ensure that Iran no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":262835,"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-263128","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\/263128","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=263128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263129,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263128\/revisions\/263129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}