Biden backs Netanyahu, but does not support counterattack

Rehoboth Beach. The President of the United States, Joe Biden, warned the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that his country will not support a counterattack on Iran.

He added that Washington helped bring down almost all drones and missiles fired by Iran against Israel and reiterated that his support for Israel’s security is ironcladwhile several countries joined the White House’s condemnation of Iran’s offensive against Israeli territory in retaliation for the bombing of the Islamic Republic’s consulate in Damascus at the beginning of the month.

Biden recalled that yesterday he urged Iran not to carry out an attack on Israel. Yesterday she abruptly cut short a visit to his home state of Delaware to meet with National Security advisers in the White House Situation Room.

I just met with my national security team to receive an update on Iran’s attacks on Israel. Our commitment to the security of Tel Aviv in the face of threats from Tehran and its representatives (in the region) is ironclad.Biden said on social network X.

Biden spoke by phone last night with Netanyahu, who earlier held meetings with his security and war cabinets at the Kirya headquarters of the Israel Defense Forces in Tel Aviv, the premier’s office said. Times of Israel.

The Pentagon reported that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, to discuss urgent regional threats, and made clear that Israel could fully rely on the support of the United States to defend itself against any attack by Iran and its regional proxies..

The US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, also spoke with his Israeli counterpart to reinforce the ironclad commitment to the security of Tel Aviv.

US troops headed to the Middle East yesterday amid fears of an escalation between Iran and Israel. The Pentagon reported yesterday about the shipment of additional means to the region to strengthen deterrence efforts and increase protection of US forcesthanks to which Washington helped to bring down almost all drones and missiles fired by Iran against Israel, Biden declared.

The president also announced that he will convene the leaders of the G-7 (group of rich nations) to coordinate a united diplomatic response al shameless Iranian attack.

State of emergency

Jordan declared a state of emergency and assured that its air defenses were ready to shoot down any unmanned aircraft that violates its airspace. Fragments of a missile shot down by the anti-aircraft defense of the Hashemite kingdom fell in the residential area of ​​Mar al Hamam and in Amman, the Jordanian capital, reported Al Hadath television; no victims were reported

Like Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq closed their airspace.

Iranian retaliation condemned strongly by the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres, who requested an immediate cessation of hostilities.

The European Union, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Holland, Colombia, Chile and Argentina, among others, joined in condemning the Iranian attack separately. It was predictable; We are now in the prelude to the Third World War precisely when humanity should rebuild its economy towards the rapid goal of decarbonization. The United States’ support, in practice, for a genocide, has ignited the worldsaid the Colombian president Gustavo Petro in X, who also called for Israel to stop the madness of its rulerand said that the UN must meet urgently and bet on peace.

His Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, expressed his “solidarity and ‘unwavering’ commitment to the State of Israel in the face of attacks initiated by the Islamic Republic of Iran,” and suspended a trip to Europe to join a crisis committee in his country.

The government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Saturday that it continues the worrying events in the Middle East, although he avoided condemning the attack on Israel by Iran that began in the afternoon.

This is an unprecedented escalation and a serious threat to regional securitythe high representative of EU Foreign Policy, the Spanish Josep Borrell, stressed in his account on X.

Former President Donald Trump noted that Iran’s attack shows the weakness that Biden has.

In this context, the Israeli army announced new attacks against Hezbollah compounds in the vicinity of the town of Rihan, in southern Lebanon, shortly after the Shiite party’s militias launched dozens of rockets last night in northern Israel. .

At press time, it was reported that explosions were heard resulting from the interception of Israeli missiles in Damascus, and air defense batteries were activated to repel an aggression by Tel Aviv against the International Airport of the Syrian capital. No casualties or damage were reported.