Israel promised “a strong response” to the attack of 180 ballistic missiles launched by Iran on Tuesday afternoon. “He’s going to pay for that.”Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu even said so. For the moment, the Israeli army is concentrating all its efforts in southern Lebanon, where violent fighting against Hezbollah has caused a significant number of victims: eight soldiers killed in a single day. However, the Jewish state may already be preparing retaliation on a larger scale.
This same Thursday, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, announced that he would meet with your ally in the Middle East on the possibility of attacking Iranian oil installations in response. The American president made these statements in the garden of the White House before boarding a helicopter to travel to Florida and Georgia, where Hurricane Helene caused significant human and material damage.
“Do you support Israel in its attacks on Iranian oil facilities?A reporter asked him amid the noise of the propellers. “We are discussing it,” the president responded, according to reports. Reuters. The truth is that an attack of this type This would seriously harm the economy of a country already stifled by the sanctions that the international community has imposed on it for years for the development of its nuclear program.
Furthermore, according to several analysts, this response could encourage Iran to attack in turn oil production facilities in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states, which have already guaranteed their “neutrality” to prevent the conflict from affecting their reserves.
Either way, it would lead to an increase in fuel prices, a sensitive issue for the American campaign facing the elections of November 5. The truth is that just because Biden thought about whatAnd A shower of missiles falling on Iranian crude oil wells has sent oil prices soaring, Laura Ojea reports in this newspaper. Iran is estimated to have more than a thousand oil wells, concentrated mainly in the southwest of the country.
An Iranian woman refuels her car at a gas station after the IRGC attack on Israel in Tehran.
On Wednesday, Biden had already assured that he would not support an attack on Iran’s nuclear power plants because it could trigger a broader regional war. The Democrat spoke these words just hours after agreeing with the G7 leaders –convened by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in an emergency telematic meeting – the imposition of new sanctions against the Islamic Republic due to the rain of missiles.
“Iranian target”
For its part, Iran, which has already threatened Israel with further responses, warned Washington through the country’s mission to the United Nations in New York. Concretely, he declared that he would consider “Iranian target” to any country that collaborates in an Israeli offensive.
“Any country that provides aid to the aggressor will be considered an accomplice and a legitimate target. We recommend that countries refrain from getting involved in the conflict between the Israeli regime and Iran and distance themselves from the conflict “, indicates the text from Tehran.
