The United States has yet to comment on the alleged message from Iran.
Iran said it was asking the United States to “step aside” as it prepared to respond to an alleged attack on the Israeli consulate in Syria, while its main proxy in the Middle East, Hezbollah, warned the Jewish state it was ready for war Prepare.
In a written message to Washington, Iran “warned the United States not to fall into Netanyahu’s trap,” Mohammad Jamshedi, the Iranian president’s deputy chief of staff for political affairs, wrote on X, referring to the Israeli prime minister. Yamin Netanyahu. The United States should “step aside to avoid being hit.”
“In response, the United States asked Iran not to attack U.S. targets,” Jamshedi said.
The United States has yet to comment on the alleged message from Iran.
CNN reported that the United States is on high alert and is preparing for a “significant” Iranian response against Israeli or American targets in the region. The network quoted an unnamed U.S. official as saying.
NBC cited two unnamed U.S. officials as saying that President Joe Biden’s administration is concerned that any attack could take place inside Israel and specifically target “military or intelligence targets rather than civilians.”
The Biden administration did take the unusual step of communicating directly with Iran to say the United States was not aware of the Damascus attack that would take place on Monday, Bloomberg reported. This shows that the United States is trying to prevent its own troops and bases in the Middle East from being attacked.
The Islamic Republic said it would give its old enemy Israel a “slap in the face”. However, it is unclear when that will happen, or whether Iran will try to attack Israel directly or through one of its proxy groups such as Lebanon-based Hezbollah.
Air strikes hit the Iranian consulate in Damascus, killing at least seven Iranians, including two generals. While Israel has carried out numerous attacks on Iranian-linked assets in Syria over the past few months, this is the first attack on an Iranian diplomatic building.
Since then, Israel has been on alert, canceling home leave for combat troops, calling up reserves and beefing up air defenses. The Israeli military disrupted navigation signals over Tel Aviv on Thursday to disrupt GPS-guided drones or missiles that might be launched into the country.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that Iran would undoubtedly respond. But he said his team would not “interfere with such decisions.”
“After that, how Israel will behave, the region will enter a new phase,” Nasrallah said in a televised address.
Nasrallah, who is in hiding, highlighted the coordination efforts of Iran’s so-called resistance groups in the region.
Hezbollah, the Middle East’s most powerful militia, said it has yet to use “its main weapon” in daily skirmishes with Israel on Lebanon’s southern border since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7.
Nasrallah said Hezbollah was “fully prepared” for any war with Israel.
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