The President of the United States, Joe Bidenrevealed this Thursday that he was negotiating with Israel what response to give to Iran after Tuesday’s attack with nearly 200 missiles on Israeli territory.
The president made the remarks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, before boarding the Marine One helicopter to travel to Florida and Georgia to survey the damage caused by the attack. Hurricane Helene.
Amid the noise of the helicopter’s propellers, a journalist asked him: “Do you support Israel in its attacks on Iranian oil facilities?“, to which the president replied: “We are discussing it”.
In response to questions from another reporter, Biden stressed that Israel would not take any retaliatory action this Thursday and made clear that USA. does not “allow” Israel to do anything, but simply gives advice to its greatest ally in the Middle East and to which it is the largest supplier of arms. “First of all, we do not “allow” anything to Israel. We advise Israel. And nothing will happen today,” he stressed.
The president told the press on Wednesday that will never support an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in retaliation for Tehran’s attacks on Israeli territory.
These attacks by Iran against Israel were the first since April, when Iran attacked with missiles and drones two Israeli air bases in the Negev and reached points in the occupied territory of the Golan Heights, although Israel, the United States or the Arab countries flown over managed to intercept most of the projectiles.
Tuesday’s offensive took place amid growing tensions in the region following Monday’s offensive. Israel to announce sending troops to southern Lebanon dismantle the infrastructure of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollahwhich comes after more than a week of intense Israeli bombardments against the south and east of the country.
These Israeli bombings left nearly 2,000 dead and a million displaced, according to the Lebanese authorities.
