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United States intelligence believes that Iran is preparing to launch a coup against Israel in response to the attack in Damascus (Syria), in which several senior leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were killed. The president, Joe Biden, indicated this Friday that he expects the Israeli attack “sooner rather than later.” Even so, he has asked the Tehran regime not to take the step.
Biden has participated in a telematic signing from the White House at the Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network Convention on racial justice in New York. At the end of her speech she answered some questions from the journalists present.
When asked what his message to Iran was, the president’s only response was: “No. [lo hagan]”.
Biden, in any case, wanted to make it very clear that the disagreements he has with Benjamin Netanyahu’s government about how it is conducting the war in Gaza do not affect his commitment to supporting the defense of Israel.
In an unstructured exchange of questions and answers, he was asked about the possibility of deploying more US troops in the Middle East, to which he responded: “We are dedicated to the defense of Israel. “We will support Israel.”
“We will help defend Israel, and Iran will not succeed,” the president added, without commenting on what would trigger a direct military response from the United States.
Asked about the imminence of an Iranian attack against Israel, Biden said that he did not want to reveal confidential intelligence information, but even so, he conceded: “I don’t want to go into certain information, but my expectation is sooner rather than later.”
The Israeli airstrike on Damascus and promised Iranian retaliation have raised concerns that the United States will be drawn into a deeper regional conflict.
Previously, the spokesman for the White House National Security Council, John Kirby, had detailed in a telematic press conference that the alleged Iranian attack was a “real and viable” threat, although he did not give details about when it could occur.
Kirby added that the United States was evaluating its positions in the region due to the threat from Tehran and was monitoring the situation closely.
“We are aware of the very public and what we consider very credible threat from Iran of possible attacks against Israel. “We are in constant communication with our Israeli counterparts to ensure they can defend against those types of attacks,” Kirby said on the call.
“We are also clearly analyzing, it would be reckless for us not to, our own position in the region, to ensure that we are also adequately prepared,” he added without explaining the adjustments that the US military is undertaking to prepare.
US intelligence sources cited by The New York Times who requested anonymity believe Iran will strike multiple targets inside Israel in the coming days. The charges did not indicate what form the attack would take, what type of objectives it would involve or the precise moment, information that is closely guarded among the Iranian high command. The United States, Israel’s preeminent ally, has military forces in several places in the Middle East, but Iran is likely not to attack them to avoid inciting a direct conflict with the United States, according to both Iranian and American officials cited by the New York newspaper.