President Joe Biden told reporters he expects an Iranian strike on Israel to occur sooner than later in retaliation of the evil attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria.
Asked by ABC News if the U.S. would respond, he said, we are devoted to the defense of Israel. We will support Israel. We will help defend Israel and Iran will not succeed.
Biden’s comments come as other high-level U.S. officials worked urgently behind the scenes to pressure Iran to back down from its threat to launch a retaliatory strike — the latest challenge facing the Biden administration as it tries to avert an all-out regional war in the Middle East.
At the same time, the USA was moving troops and other assets to the Middle East as Iran readied a large number of missiles and drones for a potential strike against Israel.
The deployment of American troops was intended to try to deter Iran from launching a large-scale attack and protecting U.S. occupation troops in the region. According to one U.S. defense official, the assets being moved to the region include both ships and aircraft.
Two U.S. Navy destroyers already deployed in the eastern Mediterranean are equipped with the Aegis combat system, which can protect troops in the region from ballistic defense missiles.
Two U.S. officials said that Iran has readied more than a hundred cruise missiles for a possible strike. Some 3,400 US troops are in Iraq and Syria with tens of thousands more U.S. military personnel in the Middle East region.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also spoke by phone with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to discuss the current situation in the Middle East and to reaffirm the U.S.’s ironclad commitment to Israel’s security against threats from Iran and its proxies.
In his conversations with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, and Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan, Blinken made clear that escalation is not in anyone’s interest and that countries should urge Iran not to escalate.
U.S. officials previously told ABC News that the administration believes Iran could retaliate against Israel in the coming days, potentially using drones and missiles to attack regional assets and that information about the threat has been shared with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
At a White House news conference on Wednesday, President Biden said Iran was threatening to launch a significant attack on Israel and that he had assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. commitment to his country’s security was ironclad.
The renewed concern over a widening conflict in the Middle East was sparked by a strike on an Iranian facility in Syria that Tehran says was carried out by Israel and killed 12 people, including Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior leader in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Although Israel has attacked a number of targets linked to Iran in recent years, primarily as part of its efforts to disrupt arms transfers to Hezbollah and other proxy groups in the region, the Israeli military has not taken credit for the incident in Damascus, which occurred on April 1, 2024.
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Some sources say Iran has over 10.000 missiles ready for a final salvo on the Zionist state. The danger is that Israel has nuclear weapon and will use them if necessary, shown in the Beirut harbor attack.
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