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President Biden trim short his weekend travel to his Delaware formation house and returned to nan White House to show nan situation successful nan Middle East amid concerns of a potential, immanent Iranian onslaught connected Israel.
Biden departed from Rehoboth Beach a time earlier than planned successful bid to consult pinch his nationalist information squad astir events successful nan Middle East, according to nan White House.
Biden connected Friday said he expects Iran to onslaught Israel "sooner than later" arsenic Tehran continues promising to return revenge for nan onslaught connected its Damascus consulate.
"I don't want to get into unafraid information, but my anticipation [is] sooner than later," Biden told a reporter, adding: "We are devoted to nan defense of Israel. We will support Israel. We will defend, thief take sides Israel and Iran will not succeed."
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The U.S. and others person attributed nan Damascus consulate onslaught to Israel, but nary Israeli charismatic has taken in installments for nan strike, which killed 7 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members.
Marine One pinch US President Joe Biden aboard approaches a landing area astatine Gordons Pond State Park April 12, 2024, successful Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. (Brendan Smailowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said pinch Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant connected Saturday to talk urgent location threats, according to a readout presented to reporters by Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder.
Austin told nan Israeli charismatic that Israel could count connected afloat U.S. support if Iran aliases immoderate location proxies attack, according to nan readout.
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U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan besides said pinch his Israeli counterpart, reiterating America’s "ironclad" committedness to nan information of Israel.
US President Joe Biden boards Air Force One astatine Joint Base Andrews successful Maryland connected April 12, 2024 arsenic he departs for Rehoboth, Delaware, wherever he will walk nan weekend. (Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images)
Iran has continually promised to avenge nan onslaught connected nan consulate, and connected Saturday appeared to ratchet tensions up moreover much arsenic IRGC troops seized a Portuguese-flagged ship, nan MSC Aries. Iranian officials claimed nan vessel was owned by an Israeli, but nan U.S. disputed this and claimed nan vessel belonged to a British company.
A position of US President Joe Bidenâs picnic location successful Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, United States connected February 1, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
"We powerfully condemn nan Iranian seizure of nan Portuguese flagged, British-owned MSC AIRES successful world waters," NSC spokesperson Adrienne Watson said of nan seizure, for which Iran did not supply immoderate explanation. "The unit is comprised of Indian, Filipino, Pakistani, Russian and Estonian nationals."
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"We telephone connected Iran to merchandise nan alloy and its world unit immediately," Watson insisted. "Seizing a civilian alloy without provocation is simply a blatant usurpation of world law, and an enactment of piracy by nan Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization."
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"It must beryllium condemned unequivocally, and we will activity pinch our partners to clasp Iran to relationship for its actions," she added.
Iran earlier this week reportedly indicated to U.S. officials that it would activity a non-escalatory consequence without providing immoderate much circumstantial details.
Peter Aitken is simply a Fox News Digital newsman pinch a attraction connected nationalist and world news.
