US vows full-court press to help Israel ahead of attack by Iran
By
Mike Brest
August 5, 2024 8:19 pm
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The Biden administration is preparing for an Iranian attack on Israel in the coming hours or days.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were briefed by the national security team on Monday afternoon about the “threats posed by Iran and its proxies to Israel and to U.S. servicemembers in the region,” the White House press office said in a statement.
It’s unclear how exactly Iran intends to attack Israel, but it has vowed to after last week’s assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Tehran while he was there to celebrate the Iranian president’s inauguration.
The administration has vowed to aid Israel in defending against an attack from Iran or its proxies, and the United States has troops in Jordan, Iraq, and Syria, which have come under attack in recent months by Iranian proxy militias in the latter two countries.
In preparation, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group to replace the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, additional ballistic missile defense-capable cruisers and destroyers to the Europe and Middle Eastern area, the deployment of an additional fighter squadron to the Middle East, and an increase in readiness to deploy additional land-based ballistic missile defense.
U.S. Central Command chief Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla is in Israel meeting with his counterparts there.
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