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Israel connected Tuesday warned that Iran would "face nan consequences" for its unprecedented rocket and drone onslaught connected Israel complete nan weekend. Photo via Israel Defense Forces/UPI | License Photo
April 16 (UPI) -- The Israel Defense Forces said that Iran would "face nan consequences" for its unprecedented rocket and drone onslaught connected Israel complete nan weekend.
Emerging from a gathering of nan warfare furniture Monday night, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said successful a video connection posted connected X that nan timing and standard of nan consequence would beryllium calibrated to champion suit Israel's interests.
"We are intimately assessing nan business and stay astatine our highest level of readiness. We will take our consequence accordingly," Halevi said. "The IDF stands fresh to respond to immoderate threat from Iran and its panic proxies arsenic we proceed our ngo to take sides nan authorities of Israel."
But Halevi spent nan bulk of his two-minute briefing thanking and heaping praise connected an American, British and French subject conjugation "activated crossed nan skies of nan Middle East" to antagonistic Saturday's airborne battle and backmost up nan IDF's "Iron Shield" defense strategy.
He said their associated defense systems activated successful existent clip successful nan air, connected nan crushed and astatine oversea had intercepted nan threats, causing Iran's onslaught to fail.
"Operation Iron Shield proved nan spot of our iron-clad cooperation. I want to convey each our world partners who stood up to Iran's aggression," he said, adding that nan onslaught had "created caller opportunities for cooperation" successful nan Middle East.
Watch IDF Chief of nan General Staff LTG Herzi Halevi convey @CENTCOM , Armed forces, Armed Forces and different partners for their information successful Operation Iron Shield and reside nan Iranian attack: pic.twitter.com/YIlAQBXdjY— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 15, 2024
That was followed by Foreign Minister Israel Katz announcing early Tuesday nan motorboat of a parallel negotiated "offensive" against Iran involving lobbying Israel's world partners including nan United States, Britain, France, Canada and Australia for sanctions to undermine Iran's subject machine.
"This greeting I sent letters to 32 countries and said pinch dozens of overseas ministers and starring figures astir nan world calling for sanctions to beryllium imposed connected nan Iranian rocket task and that nan Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps beryllium declared a violent organization, arsenic a measurement to curb and weaken Iran," Katz wrote successful a post connected X. "Iran must beryllium stopped now -- earlier it is excessively late."
Saturday's first-ever nonstop Iranian onslaught connected Israel has already prompted activity successful Western capitals -- astir urging Israel to workout restraint -- but besides prompting renewed information guarantees including from U.S. President Joe Biden, vowing Monday to take sides Israel.
"The United States is committed to Israel's security," Biden told White House reporters up of a gathering pinch Iraqi President Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani
"We're committed to a cease-fire that will bring nan hostages location and forestall immoderate conflict from spreading beyond what it already has."
Following a late-night closed-door GOP convention gathering Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced representatives would vote this week connected 2 abstracted assistance packages for Israel and Ukraine, successful consequence to "precipitating events astir nan globe."
The breakthrough follows months of delays successful passing a $60 cardinal overseas assistance supplemental backing package, which nan Senate passed successful February, successful a statement complete backing successful nan measure for beefing up information connected nan U.S-Mexico border.
