{"id":287138,"date":"2026-07-28T14:35:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=287138"},"modified":"2026-07-28T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:16:51","slug":"israel-defense-minister-says-netanyahu-succeeded-where-churchill-failed-by-bringing-us-into-iran-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/287138\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel defense minister says Netanyahu succeeded where Churchill failed by bringing US into Iran strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Israel wants to strike Iran’s energy infrastructure, but the United States is currently opposed to such a move, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has said.<\/p>\n

Below are some highlights from Katz’s remarks:<\/p>\n

American fighter jets are taking off from Israel to carry out strikes in Iran. The Iranians know it.<\/li>\n
Israel wants to strike Iran’s energy infrastructure, but the United States is not approving it at the moment out of concern that Iran could attack neighboring countries and trigger a global oil crisis.<\/li>\n
Netanyahu achieved what Churchill could not. He brought Trump together with us to attack Iran.<\/li>\n
In Gaza, we destroy not only the underground infrastructure but also homes above ground. Today, nearly 70% of Gaza has been destroyed.<\/li>\n
In 24 Lebanese villages dating back hundreds of years, Israel destroyed every building—not house by house, but entire villages. Between 15,000 and 20,000 homes across those 24 villages have been destroyed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Israel wants to strike Iran’s energy infrastructure, but the United States is currently opposed to such a move, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has said. Below are some highlights from Katz’s remarks: American fighter jets are taking off from Israel to carry out strikes in Iran. The Iranians know it. Israel wants to strike Iran’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":287118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287138","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=287138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287140,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287138\/revisions\/287140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}