{"id":20552,"date":"2026-03-15T17:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/20552\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T17:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:04:12","slug":"what-a-difference-12-days-make-why-this-israel-iran-war-is-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/20552\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Difference 12 Days Make: Why This Israel-Iran War Is Different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">In the first two barrages launched at Israel from Iran last June, about 100 ballistic missiles and swarms of drones were fired. Although attacks of a similar scale had already been seen in April 2024 and again in October 2024, the Israeli home front was gripped by panic. Numerous impact sites during that war \u2013 some of them at military installations \u2013 and the 33 fatalities caused by the attacks confirmed public fears. In total, the military estimates that Iran launched about 550 missiles toward Israel over the 12 days of fighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the first two barrages launched at Israel from Iran last June, about 100 ballistic missiles and swarms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[8714,2490,100,34,37,1045,588],"class_list":["post-20552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-2025-israel-iran-war","tag-2026-israel-iran-war","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israeli-air-force","tag-tel-aviv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116234280155862147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}