- “Our commitment to Israel’s security against these threats from Iran and its proxies is ironclad,” President Biden said.
- Iran threatens retaliation for attack on its embassy in Syria
- Israel has put its army on high alert
President Joe Biden vowed Wednesday that U.S. support for Israel is “strong” amid concerns that the country could be the target of major missile or drone attacks by Iran.
‘As I told Prime Minister Netanyahu, our commitment to Israel’s security against these threats from Iran and its proxies is ironclad. Let me say it again: battleship. “We are going to do everything we can to protect Israel’s security,” Biden said at a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
An attack by Iran or its proxies against military and government targets in Israel is imminent. Bloomberg News reported citing intelligence sources, with one source saying it’s more a question of when, not if, it will happen.
“Our commitment to Israel’s security against these threats from Iran and its proxies is ironclad,” President Biden said.
Muslims arrive at the Shah Abdol-Azim shrine to perform the Eid al-Fitr prayer marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, one of the holiest months in the Islamic calendar, in Tehran
Tehran warned it would retaliate for an Israeli strike in Syria on April 1 that killed several top Iranian commanders when Israeli forces attacked the Iranian embassy building in Damascus.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech on Wednesday to mark Eid al-Fitr that attacking an embassy “means that they have attacked our soil.”
“The evil regime made a mistake and must be punished and will be punished,” he added, according to IRNA, the state news agency.
Iran’s main proxy group is Hezbollah, which is based in southern Lebanon and has been exchanging fire with Israeli forces almost daily since war broke out in Gaza in October.
Israel has not explicitly acknowledged that it was behind that attack on an Iranian embassy but has put its military on alert.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech on Wednesday to mark Eid al-Fitr that attacking an embassy “means that they have attacked our soil.”
Israel has not explicitly acknowledged that it was behind that attack, but has put its military on alert.
And Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz wrote in X: “If Iran attacks from its territory, Israel will react and attack in Iran.”
There are fears that an open war between Israel and Iran could turn into a much broader conflict.