Dan Caine

Critical roles of Eyal Zamir, Dan Caine, Brad Cooper in shaping the Iran war - exclusive

As US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have made the ultimate war decisions regarding Iran, IDF and US military figures have been the next most influential players.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir meets with US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine at the IDF's Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv, November 1, 2025.
Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu

TIME names Netanyahu among 2026 Most Influential, calls his post-Oct. 7 comeback bigger than Trump

TIME editor-at-large Ian Bremmer wrote that the PM "once faced the political wasteland" after Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre, but has now engineered a "political comeback" that "may have exceeded Trump's."

|ByJAMES GENN
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump speaks, while Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on, as they hold a press conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC, US, April 6, 2026.

Trump says Iran can be taken out in one night, reveals details on fighter pilots' rescue mission

Trump has threatened to rain "hell" on Tehran if it did not make a deal by the end of Tuesday that would allow traffic to start moving again through the vital route for global energy supplies.

|ByREUTERS, TZVI JASPER
Car wrecks and a residential building damaged by a strike amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 30, 2026.

‘Axis of terror is beginning to collapse’ Zamir says as IDF, US continue strikes across Iran

The IDF also stated that as it conducted the strikes on weapons production facilities, parallel strikes were conducted on missile launch sites and surface-to-air missile launch positions.

|ByGOLDIE KATZ, MIRIAM SELA-EITAM

US intensifies campaign to reopen Strait of Hormuz, deploys A-10s, Apaches - report

Top US general Dan Caine had announced that American A-10 Thunderbolt II jets had entered the war and were on missions along Iran’s southern flank.

MARCH 20, 2026BySAM HALPERN, AMICHAI STEIN
A US Airmen A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft pilot assigned to the 75th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron sits in an A-10 at a base in the US Central Command area of responsibility, Feb. 1, 2026.

Iran not more formidable than expected, top general says as US gears for intense fighting

Caine told reporters that the United States was carrying out strikes against Iranian mine-laying vessels

MARCH 10, 2026ByREUTERS, JAMES GENN, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on March 2, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia.