US President Joe Biden was in the Situation Room at the White House watching Iran's attack on Israel unfold in real time
US President Joe Biden was in the Situation Room at the White House watching Iran 's attack on Israel unfold in real timeLate on Sunday UN Secretary-General António Guterres joined G7 leaders and Arab nations in calling for calm, telling the UN Security Council:"The Middle East is on the brink."into Israel in response to a strike on an Iran ian consular building in Syria earlier this month which killed two Iran ian generals.
"The scale and intensity of the attack represents a flagrant threat to international peace and security and is utterly unacceptable," he said yesterday. Israel's war cabinet also met on Sunday to discuss possible retaliation against Iran, with the country's broadcaster Channel 12 quoting an unnamed official as vowing a"significant response".
The weekend brought long-simmering tensions between the two countries to boiling point, sparking fears that the conflict could spread more widely across the Middle East region. Ahead of Israel's war cabinet meeting, centrist minister and war cabinet member Benny Gantz said:"We will build a regional coalition and exact the price from Iran in the fashion and timing that is right for us."
The US has already said that, while it does not seek to escalate the conflict, it will continue to defend Israel.
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