‘Nothing going to happen today’, says Biden on Israeli attack on Iran
Al Jazeera
Biden said Israel’s response to Iran would not come on Thursday, but US officials declined to offer more detail.
US officials say they have been having “a number of conversations” with their Israeli counterparts in the aftermath of Iran’s missile attack on Tuesday, but declined to say when or how Israel planned to respond, and whether the US had drawn any red lines.
President Joe Biden told reporters that he did not believe a widely expected Israeli strike against Iran would come on Thursday.
“First of all, we don’t ‘allow’ Israel, we advise Israel,” Biden told reporters at the White House on Thursday when asked if he would allow Israel to retaliate against Iran. “And there is nothing going to happen today.”
At a press briefing, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller declined to offer more specifics about Israel’s plans vis-a-vis Iran or Lebanon, where Israeli forces have continued to bomb civilian areas and where Israeli soldiers invading Lebanese territory have for a second day come face to face with Hezbollah.
“We are having ongoing conversations with them about the options that they are considering, but I am going to keep everything about those conversations private,” Miller said.
