UAE Al-Ain: Israel Preparing Renewed Iran Strike on Energy and Officials
UAE outlet Al-Ain reported on Sunday that Israel is on “high alert in anticipation of a possible resumption of war with Iran”, citing a source briefed on Israeli military planning carried by the Jerusalem Post. The reported plan would “include damage to national infrastructure, energy sites, and power plants, and Israeli aircraft will also attempt to target high-ranking Iranian officials”. Israel is reportedly anticipating Iranian strikes in response. The reporting comes alongside Israeli media discussion of an imminent decision window and follows last week’s New York Times account, carried in Saturday’s Times of Israel, that US and Israeli officials were in their most intense renewal-preparation phase to date.
The Jerusalem Post separately reports New York Times and Wall Street Journal accounts of Israeli forward sites established in Iraq amid the Iran tensions — the WSJ identifying one site and the NYT two. Iran has continued strikes on Kurdish opposition groups in northern Iraq through the ceasefire period. The Jerusalem Post’s framing is that Iran “is messaging through aggression and words” that it will target countries or groups working with Israel, and that the Sunday Barakah strike fits that pattern. Pakistan’s mediation track and Trump’s pending decision on sanctions against Chinese refineries buying Iranian oil remain the two open variables for whether the renewal moves from preparation to execution.