Given the threats of attack from Iran, the US has assured Israel of its support. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed “the United States’ support for Israel’s security” in a call with Israeli Defense Minister Joav Galant, a US State Department spokesperson said late Wednesday evening (local time) .
Blinken made clear that the US would support Israel in the face of “any threats from Iran and its allies.” Following the recent suspected Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy complex in Syria, Iran’s head of state, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reiterated his threat against Israel on Wednesday. The attack was like an attack on Iranian territory, the religious leader said. “The evil regime (Israel) made a mistake, in this case it must be punished and it will be punished.”
Tehran has repeatedly threatened retaliation
In early April, two brigade generals and five other members of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards were killed in an airstrike on the Iranian embassy complex in the Syrian capital Damascus. Since then, the Iranian leadership has threatened reprisals several times – there are fears of an escalation. However, how and when Iran will respond remains unclear.
Biden: “Iran threatens major attack”
However, US President Joe Biden said at a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday that Iran was “threatening a significant attack on Israel.”
As he had already told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the US commitment to Israel’s security “is ironclad against these threats from Iran and its allies,” the US president said, adding: “Let me say it one more time.” say once: iron.’
Source: Krone
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