While the Biden administration has shown intense loyalty to Israel in their fight with Hamas - even at the risk of losing favor among its own political party - the US is now cautioning Israel to not escalate its ongoing conflict with Iran, following a retaliatory attack from the Islamic Republic over the weekend.
On Tuesday Israel’s war cabinet met to discuss a potential response to Iran’s strike on Saturday, but did not come to a conclusion.
But on Wednesday, the Israeli prime minister said that Israel would decide on its own how to respond to Iran’s retaliatory attack, despite advice from its Western allies.
Meanwhile the US has been urging Israel to show restraint.
- Israel is unlikely to launch a retaliatory strike on Iran until after the end of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also known as Pesach, which is celebrated from April 22 - 30, a senior US official has told the ABC News broadcaster.
The report said on Wednesday that the official did not rule out that the plans "could always change."
He added that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and other leadership are still on a "high state of alert," with some of them still being in safe houses and underground facilities, the report said.
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Israel considered carrying out a strike on Iran in retaliation for last weekend’s unprecedented attack but then aborted the plan, according to Israeli and US media reports.
ReplyDeleteCiting three unnamed Israeli sources, ABC News reported: “Israel prepared for and then aborted retaliatory strikes against Iran on at least two nights this past week.”
ReplyDeleteAmong the range of possible reactions considered by the Israeli war cabinet were options to attack Iranian proxies elsewhere in the region or to conduct a cyberattack, the sources told ABC.
At a cabinet meeting on Monday, Israeli officials considered giving the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) permission for a strike against Iran, but “for operational reasons” decided not to go ahead with it, two unnamed Israeli officials told US news outlet Axios.