{"id":7686,"date":"2026-03-08T20:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=7686"},"modified":"2026-03-08T20:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:52:44","slug":"irans-military-degraded-by-12-day-war-with-israel-but-still-has-significant-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/08\/irans-military-degraded-by-12-day-war-with-israel-but-still-has-significant-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s military degraded by 12-day war with Israel, but still has significant capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tensions are escalating in the Middle East as President Donald Trump increases pressure on Iran to abandon its nuclear program, raising fears of a new regional conflict. While a 12-day war between Israel and Iran last June significantly degraded Iran\u2019s air defenses and long-range missile capabilities, experts believe that Tehran still retains thousands of short-range missiles. The previous conflict saw the U.S. utilize B-2 stealth bombers to strike Iranian nuclear sites, a move that left the region&#8217;s skies effectively open to American and Israeli aircraft. However, analysts caution that if the Iranian regime perceives a threat to its survival, it may retaliate by targeting U.S. bases or global oil infrastructure in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 13, 2026. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/iran-israel-donald-trump-american-middle-east-b2919876.html\">independent.co<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions are escalating in the Middle East as President Donald Trump increases pressure on Iran to abandon its nuclear program, raising fears of a new regional conflict. While a 12-day war between Israel and Iran last June significantly degraded Iran\u2019s air defenses and long-range missile capabilities, experts believe that Tehran still retains thousands of short-range [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":7659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7988,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions\/7988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}