{"id":285863,"date":"2026-07-23T12:41:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=285863"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:23:06","slug":"us-prepares-to-expand-military-operations-against-iran-wsj-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/285863\/","title":{"rendered":"US prepares to expand military operations against Iran, WSJ says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The United States is increasing its military presence in the Middle East by moving troops and equipment to the region as it prepares for a possible expansion of its military operations against Iran, The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reports, citing sources.<\/p>\n

According to the report, special operations forces have been deployed to the Middle East from US bases over the past week.<\/p>\n

The publication also reports that fighter jet squadrons have been deployed to air bases across the region, while bombers at US and UK bases have been placed on heightened alert.<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal notes that the moves could indicate US President Donald Trump’s intention to expand military operations against Iran.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United States is increasing its military presence in the Middle East by moving troops and equipment to the region as it prepares for a possible expansion of its military operations against Iran, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources. According to the report, special operations forces have been deployed to the Middle East from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":285785,"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-285863","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\/285863","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=285863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285864,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285863\/revisions\/285864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}