The Biden administration is preparing for possible retaliation from Iran in retaliation for Monday’s attack by Israel on the consulate general of the Islamic Republic of Syria, according to multiple reports.
US officials believe Iran could direct attacks on Israeli or US assets in the Middle East within the next week. According to CNN.
“We are definitely on the highest alert,” one U.S. official said Friday. According to Reuters.
Another official told CNN that retaliation from Iran is seen as “inevitable” and could be “significant.”
Seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including two senior members, were killed in an airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday.
The United States believes that the attack on the Tehran embassy complex in Syria was launched by Israel, but the Jewish state has not confirmed that Israel was responsible.
Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, have vowed revenge.
President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed Iran’s public threat to Israel during a phone conversation Thursday, with the 81-year-old president vowing the United States’ strong support for the Jewish state in the face of the Iranian threat. It was reported that he had made it clear. Call reading.
“In recent days, there has been discussion between the two leaders about the very real and public threat that Iran poses to Israel’s security, and the president has urged Prime Minister Netanyahu to rely on U.S. support. “We have very clearly stated — very clearly — that we can do so in order to support our self-defense against the threat posed directly and publicly by Iran,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Friday. he told reporters.
A direct attack on Israel by Iran could intensify the current conflict between Hamas and Israel.
Iran-backed militants have targeted U.S. troops in the region with drone strikes more than 100 times since Israel’s declaration of war against Hamas, and several U.S.-led attacks on militant outposts in Syria and Iraq. led to air strikes.
