{"id":434994,"date":"2026-07-30T00:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/report-u-s-preparing-for-a-larger-response-to-iran-434994\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T00:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:37:20","slug":"report-u-s-preparing-for-a-larger-response-to-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/report-u-s-preparing-for-a-larger-response-to-iran-434994\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: U.S. preparing for a larger response to Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>A senior Israeli security official told i24 that the U.S. is preparing for &#8220;something bigger than anything we&#8217;ve seen so far.&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li>\nSources say Washington is weighing a more significant military operation rather than another limited retaliatory strike.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nThe assessment is based on a series of developments rather than a single event, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nIran&#8217;s ballistic missile attack on U.S. forces in Jordan.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nAttacks by an Iran-backed Iraqi militia on targets in Saudi Arabia.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nIranian threats toward Azerbaijan and Ukraine.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nTehran&#8217;s refusal to reach an agreement over the Strait of Hormuz.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nThe latest attack in Egypt.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\nIsraeli officials believe the cumulative effect of these actions shows Iran is escalating tensions across multiple fronts simultaneously, increasing the likelihood of a broader U.S. response.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stocks are lower but off lows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dow\u00a0is down 750 points or -1.43%. <\/li>\n<li>S&amp;P index is down 50 points or -0.67% <\/li>\n<li>NASDAQ index is down -179 points or -0.72%..<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Crude oil is trading up $5.30 at $84.51. The high price reached $85.57<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Israeli security official told i24 that the U.S. is preparing for &#8220;something bigger than anything we&#8217;ve seen so far.&#8221; Sources say Washington is weighing a more significant military operation rather&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}