{"id":983,"date":"2022-01-03T00:23:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T08:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/?p=983"},"modified":"2022-01-03T00:23:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T08:23:51","slug":"the-israeli-ministry-of-defense-announced-an-agreement-to-buy-weapons-from-the-united-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/blog\/world\/983\/","title":{"rendered":"The Israeli Ministry of Defense announced an agreement to buy weapons from the United State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s defense ministry says it has reached a billion-dollar arms deal with the United States. The deal includes the purchase of 12 Lockheed Martin-Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion heavy helicopters and two Boeing KC-46 refueling aircraft, and a contract has been signed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the German news agency, the value of this arms deal is estimated at 2 billion and 700 million euros. The first helicopters are said to be delivered in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times recently reported that Israel had asked the United States to speed up the delivery of refueling aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper adds that this could play a decisive role in attacking Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities. However, US officials have said it is impossible to prepare refueling aircraft before 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s defense ministry says it has reached a billion-dollar arms deal with the United States. The deal includes the purchase of 12 Lockheed Martin-Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion heavy helicopters and two Boeing KC-46 refueling aircraft, and a contract has been signed. According to the German news agency, the value of this arms deal is estimated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","wds_primary_category":119,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}