Source tells ‘Post’ US likely to attack Iran, but not yet

The United States is likely to attack Iran eventually but not necessarily in the coming days, despite the spike in global media “noise” surrounding the conflict, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

Rather, many of the latest reports are viewed by some Israeli officials as global media noise picking up on the general feel of Trump administration officials coming out of this week’s negotiations as opposed to crossing the threshold.

There has also been intense focus on whether Trump’s deadline of two weeks for the Islamic Republic to return with a new offer is parallel to the two weeks from June 2025, which turned out to be a fake-out and cover for Trump’s attack on the Fordow nuclear facility after only three days of that two-week deadline had passed.

But the circumstances are not the same.

When Trump broke his own deadline early, he had already sat on the sidelines for around a week and a half, while Israel had already cleared out most of Iran’s air defenses, and he faced little risk by sending in B-2 high-altitude bombers to drop bombs on Fordow uncontested.

In contrast, Trump is currently considering whether to be the lead party in a much longer campaign in which he could lose many American soldiers as well as expensive sea vessels, and in which the broader goals of regime change might not be realized.

Under the circumstances, some Israeli officials believe that the current noise is at most venting frustration and expressing to the Iranians the seriousness of the next two weeks, as opposed to signaling an imminent attack in the coming days.