US targets may not be on the list for a possible attack on Iran, officials say
American analysts and intelligence officials said Friday they expect Iran to strike several targets inside Israel in the coming days in retaliation for an Israeli bombing in the Syrian capital on April 1 that killed several senior Iranian commanders.The United States, Israel's main ally, has military forces in several locations in the Middle East. But Iran is not expected to target them to avoid direct conflict with the United States, according to U.S. and Iranian officials who spoke anonymously about the expected strikes, which they were not authorized to discuss publicly.Any Iranian attack inside Israel would represent a turning point in the decades of hostility between the two nations and would most likely open a new, volatile chapter in the region. Israel and Iran maintain no dir...