{"id":67646,"date":"2026-02-28T18:56:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/inside-trumps-decision-to-attack-iran-a-window-of-opportunity\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:56:45","slug":"inside-trumps-decision-to-attack-iran-a-window-of-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/inside-trumps-decision-to-attack-iran-a-window-of-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Trump\u2019s decision to attack Iran: \u2018a window of opportunity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US joined an Israeli assault after intel suggested Iran\u2019s top clerics and commanders could be hit at once<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> launched attacks against Iran on Saturday as part of a joint operation with Israel after they developed intelligence that they could simultaneously target the country\u2019s leaders and mullahs, according to two people familiar with deliberations.<\/p>\n<p>The Israelis had been tracking the movements of Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and determined there was a window of opportunity to launch attacks as they convened, the people said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/28\/trump-attack-iran-opportunity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US joined an Israeli assault after intel suggested Iran\u2019s top clerics and commanders could be hit at once Donald Trump launched attacks against Iran on Saturday as part of a joint operation with Israel after they developed intelligence that they could simultaneously target the country\u2019s leaders and mullahs, according to two people familiar with &#8230; <a title=\"Inside Trump\u2019s decision to attack Iran: \u2018a window of opportunity\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/inside-trumps-decision-to-attack-iran-a-window-of-opportunity\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Inside Trump\u2019s decision to attack Iran: \u2018a window of opportunity\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}