{"id":816041,"date":"2026-05-23T04:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/816041\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T04:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:08:19","slug":"tehran-could-be-planning-surprise-attack-intelligence-officials-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/816041\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran could be planning surprise attack, intelligence officials warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-896999\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> could potentially be planning a surprise attack involving missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-896875\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf States<\/a> and Israel, intelligence officials warned on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The possibility of a preemptive Iranian attack was raised following a situational assessment with top military leaders and Defense Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-896709\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel Katz<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Security officials noted that Tehran might attempt to act before the US and Israel decide that the diplomatic path is no longer viable and launch a surprise attack similar to the one at the start of Operation Epic Fury and Operation Roaring Lion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Air Force and IDF\u2019s Operations Directorate, under the direction of Maj. Gen. Hidai Zilberman and other senior officials, conducted a series of discussions with American counterparts to improve readiness, including the transfer of intelligence on unusual Iranian activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Additionally, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir conducted security briefings with military commanders as part of an overall situational assessment, both defensive and offensive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Zamir has also maintained conversations with American counterparts to coordinate a response in the event of an attack from Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>A military source told Walla that a thorough review was conducted following US-Israeli operations regarding the detection, identification, and interception of a range of threats from Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The assessment helped to strengthen joint IDF-US military operations, including missile interceptions, state-military cooperation, integration of technologies and software improvements, and reinforcement of troops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Over the past month, the volume of US military equipment being transferred to Israel has increased sharply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran could potentially be planning a surprise attack involving missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles against Gulf States and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":816042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[127189,260639,6644,99,6112,41044,50,266321,266253],"class_list":["post-816041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-drone-attack","tag-gulf-states","tag-iranian-missile-attacks","tag-israel","tag-israel-iran-war","tag-israel-katz","tag-news","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-operation-roaring-lion"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116621928444653462","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}