US and Israel have reportedly prepared plans to resume joint attacks on Iran after the US midterm elections to avoid potential economic and electoral consequences, Lebanese newspaper Nidaa al-Watan reports, citing a Western diplomatic source

US and Israel have reportedly prepared plans to resume joint attacks on Iran after the US midterm elections to avoid potential economic and electoral consequences, Lebanese newspaper Nidaa al-Watan reports, citing a Western diplomatic source.

Reports of this kind, a single unnamed diplomatic source carried in regional media, sit at the weaker end of the sourcing spectrum, and precedent has been that such stories are as often strategic signalling as operational fact. Deliberately timed leaks on Iran planning have historically served to pressure Tehran, reassure domestic constituencies, or test reactions, and many never materialise into action. The framing that strikes would wait until after midterms to shield against economic and electoral fallout is itself a recurring motif: election calendars have repeatedly featured in the reported logic of US Middle East timing decisions, and it reads as a rationale crafted for an audience. The transmission channel, if taken at face value, is crude through the Strait of Hormuz risk premium, freight and insurance costs, and regional air defence posture; prior episodes of threatened or actual strikes on Iran have tended to produce sharp but often fading spikes unless supply infrastructure is actually hit. The tells worth watching are corroboration or denial from official Washington or Israeli channels, force posture movements in the Gulf, and whether other outlets match the story. As an unconfirmed report attributed to one source, this is headline risk, not a base case.