Kirby has acknowledged that several communications with Iran took place prior to the attack, but has assured that at no time was there “any communication as to when the attack would take place or against what targets.”
He the United States government He denied on Monday that Iran had informed him in advance about when the attack on Israel would take place and the targets it planned to hit, contradicting the version of the Iranian government and other neighboring countries . “That idea is ridiculous,” he said at a news conference. John Kirbyone of the spokespersons for the White House.
“Can you imagine a world where Iran calls and says, ‘Hey, we’re going to try to attack Israel with 300 cruise missiles and drones, we just wanted to let you know. Oh, by the way, here are our goals’? Sorry, that didn’t happen,” he said.
Kirby has acknowledged that several communications with Iran took place before the attack through Switzerland, which serves as an intermediary between the two nations; but he has assured that at no time was there “any message as to when the attack would take place or against what targets.”
Spokespeople for the State Department and the Pentagon also defended this same version, which contradicts what was said by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who claims that they informed Washington 72 days before the attack have stated.
The Joe Biden administration’s version also contradicts what US allies in the region such as Turkey, Jordan and Iraq have said, whose officials confirmed that Iran had 72 hours’ notice of its attack on Israel, according to American media.
Iran launched more than 300 drones, rockets and ballistic missiles against Israel early Sunday morning in response to the April 1 bombing of its consulate in Damascus, marking the first such attack from Iranian soil.
Source: EITB
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