Biden Gives Netanyahu Terrible News as Israel Reportedly Plans Counterattack Against Iran
As Israel emerged largely unscathed from a blitz of Iranian drones and missiles, President Joe Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the U.S. position on an Israeli response. Biden told Netanyahu…
As 🇮🇱Israel emerged largely unscathed from a blitz of Iranian drones and missiles, President 👤Joe Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister 👤Benjamin Netanyahu about the U.S. position on an Israeli response.
Biden told Netanyahu in a Saturday phone call that the U.S. would not participate in and does not support an Israeli retaliation against the first-ever attack on 🇮🇱Israel launched from Iranian soil, according to Axios.
“You got a win. Take the win,” Biden said, according to a source Axios identified only as a “senior White House official.”
The official said Netanyahu told Biden he understood the U.S. president’s position.
Biden Gives Netanyahu Terrible News as Israel Reportedly Plans Counterattack Against Iran — IJR
reported that almost all of the more than 300 missiles and drones fired on
🇮🇱Israel
were intercepted meant damage was light, though
🇮🇷Iran
crossed a red line “by firing weapons from Iranian territory into Israeli territory.
“Had defenses not held, scores or hundreds could have been killed,” the Times reported.
🇮🇷Iran said its response ends its retaliation for the deaths of seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers killed in an April attack on the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, Syria. 🇮🇱Israel has not officially claimed responsibility for that attack, though it’s widely blamed.
“The matter can be deemed concluded,” the Iranian Mission to the United Nations said in a statement published on X on Saturday evening.“However, should the Israeli regime make another mistake, 🇮🇷Iran’s response will be considerably more severe. It is a conflict between 🇮🇷Iran and the rogue Israeli regime, from which the U.S. MUST STAY AWAY!”
🇮🇱Israel’s Channel 12 TV said an 🇮🇱Israel official it did not name said the country is planning a “significant response” to the attack, according to the Times of Israel.
“If the Zionist regime (🇮🇱Israel) or its supporters demonstrate reckless behavior, they will receive a decisive and much stronger response,” Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi said, according to the Times of 🇮🇱Israel.
The 🇮🇱Israel Defense Forces said more than 99 percent of the weapons sent its way were downed, the Times of 🇮🇱Israel reported.
IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said an air force base in southern 🇮🇱Israel sustained light damage.
Hagari said a young girl in the Negev region of 🇮🇱Israel was injured when she was hit with shrapnel from an interception, according to the Times of Israel.
The coalition intercepting missiles and drones includes the United States, 🇮🇱Israel, the United Kingdom and Jordan, according to The Washington Post.
