{"id":1425801,"date":"2023-09-02T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1425801"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:30:00","slug":"us-israel-to-conduct-joint-drills-simulating-attacks-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/us-israel-to-conduct-joint-drills-simulating-attacks-on-iran\/1425801\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Israel To Conduct Joint Drills Simulating Attacks On Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">US, Israel To Conduct Joint Drills Simulating Attacks On Iran<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/08\/31\/report-us-israel-to-conduct-joint-drills-simulating-attacks-on-iran\/\"><em>Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US and Israel will <strong>simulate striking Iranian nuclear facilities<\/strong> as part of a series of joint military exercises that will be held in the coming months,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israel-set-to-hold-several-major-joint-military-drills-with-us-in-coming-months\/\"><em>The Times of Israel<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reported Wednesday, citing Israeli TV.<\/p>\n<p>Back in January, the US and Israel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/01\/26\/us-israel-conclude-largest-ever-joint-military-exercise-aimed-at-iran\/\">conducted the Juniper Oak exercises<\/a>, which were the largest-ever joint drills between the two nations. The Israeli military said Juniper Oak was <strong>just the first of a series of drills that the US and Israel will hold this year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/isdrills.jpeg?itok=QS7zJozs\"><em>File image: Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Channel 12 reported one of the upcoming drills would simulate Israel facing a multi-front missile attack that will involve the US deployment of Patriot missile systems. Another drill will rehearse a joint US-Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The plan to simulate attacks on Iran <strong>has not been publicly confirmed by the US or Israel, but the two nations have previously rehearsed bombing Iran<\/strong>, including during drills that were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2022\/11\/30\/us-israel-hold-joint-aerial-drills-simulating-attacks-on-iran\/\">held over the Mediterranean Sea in November 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While nuclear facilities would be the target in the simulated drills, there\u2019s no sign Iran is looking to build a nuclear weapon, which was affirmed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/07\/11\/us-intelligence-report-says-iran-is-not-trying-to-make-nuclear-weapons\/\">by a recent US intelligence report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Often missing from the conversation about Iran\u2019s civilian nuclear program is the fact that <strong>Israel has a secret nuclear weapons program and an arsenal of nukes that the US does not acknowledge exists<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes amid heightened tensions between the US and Iran in the Persian Gulf. The US seizure of a tanker carrying Iranian oil in April provoked two Iranian tanker seizures, and the US\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/08\/07\/over-3000-us-marines-and-sailors-arrive-in-middle-east-in-deployment-aimed-at-iran\/\">responded by beefing up its military presence in the region.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sat, 09\/02\/2023 &#8211; 13:30<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/us-israel-conduct-joint-drills-simulating-attacks-iran\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/us-israel-conduct-joint-drills-simulating-attacks-iran<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US, Israel To Conduct Joint Drills Simulating Attacks On Iran Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US and Israel will simulate striking Iranian nuclear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}