WSJ: Israel will soon respond to Iranian strike
Kyiv • UNN
According to unnamed Western officials, Israel will soon respond to Iran's strike, while the United States is pushing Israel to refrain from escalating the conflict.
Israel will soon respond to Iran's strike, unnamed Western officials have admitted in a conversation with The Wall Street Journal, UNN reports .
Details
At the same time, the United States is not going to take part in any offensive operations against Iran and is pushing Israel not to take actions that could expand the conflict, one of the sources said.
On April 14, Israel's military cabinet (consisting of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Galant, and former Defense Minister Benny Gantz) discussed how Israel would respond to the Iranian attack, but according to CNN, the meeting ended without a decision, and the Israeli army was instructed to develop additional options for responding.
Context
Iran's attack on Israel on the evening of April 13 was a response to the April 1 attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. That attack killed 13 people, including two high-ranking generals of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Tehran promised to bring Israel and the United States, as a country that supports Israel, to justice.
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