{"id":306769,"date":"2026-10-21T10:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T06:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=306769"},"modified":"2026-10-21T11:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:20:54","slug":"financial-times-netanyahu-seeks-to-resume-military-operations-against-iran-urging-us-to-finish-what-it-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/306769\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Times: Netanyahu seeks to resume military operations against Iran, urging US to \u201cfinish what it started\u201d"},"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 is pressing the United States to resume large-scale military operations against Iran, calling on Washington to &ldquo;finish what it started.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/eb4d1101-45ed-4d03-9beb-42f7c87a58ea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Financial Times<\/a> (FT) reported this, citing sources familiar with the matter. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has informed the Israeli side that Washington will not take steps to escalate the conflict before the US midterm congressional elections on November 3.<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper&rsquo;s sources, talk of potentially resuming military operations against Iran may be a pressure tactic aimed at forcing Tehran to make concessions.<\/p>\n<p>In early October, Netanyahu ordered the Israeli Air Force to prepare large-scale strikes against Iranian territory but failed to secure US approval for the operation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication, the strikes could have taken place on October 10, and the military was ready to launch the operation. However, US President Donald Trump opposed the proposed Israeli action, after which Netanyahu instructed the Israeli Air Force to halt preparations for the strikes.<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper&rsquo;s sources, the scale of destruction planned in Iran as part of the operation, which was ultimately called off, was expected to be comparable to the damage inflicted in late February and early March 2026.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pressing the United States to resume large-scale military operations against Iran, calling on Washington to &ldquo;finish what it started.&rdquo; The Financial Times (FT) reported this, citing sources familiar with the matter. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has informed the Israeli side that Washington will not take steps to escalate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":306745,"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-306769","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\/306769","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306772,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306769\/revisions\/306772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}